UAW workers at major Ford and GM truck plants vote ‘no’ on record contract deals

Autoworkers at Ford’s Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville, Ky., voted no on the contract agreement reached by the United Auto Workers union.

According to vote trackers on the UAW’s website, 54.5% of the 4,118 ballots cast in Kentucky — Ford’s largest plant — were no votes, the results showed Monday. The plant, which builds Ford’s F-Series Super Duty pickup trucks among other models, is estimated to employ 8,700 workers.

This indicates that the road ahead for the UAW may not be as smooth as union leadership had hoped for, after reaching record agreements with all three major automakers following a six-week auto strike.

By most measures, the contracts have been generous. They provide workers with a 25% wage increase and in some cases more by 2027, cost of living allowances and improved retirement contributions.

But even with those historic gains, they don’t bring workers back to where they were before 2007, when wages and benefits were slashed amid tough economic times.

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Article URL : https://www.npr.org/2023/11/13/1212784685/uaw-workers-vote-no-ford-gm-contract-deal