Chrysler Group announced on Wednesday it had reached a tentative agreement on a new national labour contract with the United Auto Workers union, covering approximately 26,000 represented employees.
“The agreement is subject to UAW member ratification. At this time, we cannot discuss the specifics of the agreement pending a ratification vote – an internal UAW process,” a Chrysler spokesman said.
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A deal has already been agreed between the UAW and GM with union members ratifying it.
But a deal agreed with Ford has run into ratification snags with Local 900, which represents almost 4,000 workers at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant and Wayne Integrated Assembly, both in Wayne, Michigan, voting to reject the deal, a union member at the local’s Wayne office confirmed to the Wall Street Journal. About 2,600 workers voted.
Before those results were confirmed, the UAW said that with 7.3% of the vote tallied thus far, 50.1% of production workers and 45.2% of skilled tradesmen had voted in favour of ratification, pointing towards less than a 50% overall result.
The agreement could still pass as other Ford locals continue to vote this week and into next week, the WSJ suggested, noting that the early setback suggests the union leadership will have to scramble to drum up support for the deal.
