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By AutoObserver Staff October 14, 2011
After quick ratification by union workers at General Motors Co., new tentative 4-year labor contracts between the United Auto Workers union and Ford Motor Co. and the Chrysler Group LLC could be on shaky ground as sketchy reports indicate approval of the tentative agreements from the UAW rank-and-file membership is far from certain. Many labor analysts expected Ford and Chrysler UAW members to accept the terms of the contract that would take the automakers and union through 2015, but as of midday Friday, with about 30 percent of votes cast at Ford, just 51 percent of workers had accepted terms of the tentative deal. The surprising narrow approval in the early voting from Ford UAW workers is increasing speculation Chrysler workers also may push back against their tentative contract.
Reuters news service reported on Friday that with about 27 percent of Ford workers casting votes on the tentative agreement, a slight majority of 53 percent voted to reject the offer. Particularly troubling for Ford was a 2-to-1 rejection of the tentative contract from one of Ford’s largest UAW assembly plants in Chicago, IL, that is promised new work under terms of the labor agreement. In total, Ford has 40,600 workers represented by the UAW, Reuters reported. Ford’s tentative contract with the UAW provides for higher signing bonuses than awarded to GM workers and Ford also committed to $16 billion in manufacturing investments and to save or add 12,000 jobs in the U.S. during the course of the 4-year contract.
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