UAW Has Second Tentative Deal

Agreement could end strike at Stellantis plants, parts warehouses
By Newser Editors and Wire Services
Posted Oct 28, 2023 5:50 PM CDT
UAW Has Second Tentative Deal
Brian "Rooster" Heppner, a United Auto Workers Local 12 member, pickets Wednesday at the Stellantis Toledo Assembly Complex in Toledo, Ohio.   (Kurt Steiss/The Blade via AP)

Jeep maker Stellantis has reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers union that follows a template set earlier this week with Ford, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said Saturday. The deal, which still has to be ratified by members, leaves only General Motors without a contract with the union, the AP reports. The agreement could end a six-week strike by more than 14,000 workers at Stellantis assembly plants in Michigan and Ohio, and at parts warehouses across the nation.

Like workers at Ford, the strikers at Stellantis are expected to take down their picket lines and start returning to work in the coming days, before 43,000 union members vote. The people, who asked not to be identified because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the talks, said most of the main points of the deal at Ford will carry over to Stellantis. The Ford pact includes 25% in general wage increases over the next 4½ years for top assembly plant workers, with 11% coming once the deal is ratified. Workers also will receive cost-of-living pay that would bring the raises to over 30%, with top assembly plant workers making more than $40 per hour. At Stellantis, top-scale workers now make around $31 per hour.

(More UAW strike stories.)

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