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Two other UAW locals also vote no to contract; final results next week
Published on Sunday, Oct 21, 2007
Associated Press
DETROIT: Workers in Twinsburg and at two other United Auto Workers locals on Saturday rejected a tentative contract agreement between the union and Chrysler LLC, casting doubt on whether the deal will be ratified.
Local 122, which represents 1,515 workers at the Twinsburg stamping plant, voted against the contract, local President Charles Spencer told the Detroit Free Press. He said 53 percent of the votes were against the deal.
The contract also failed at Local 110 in Fenton, Mo., one of Chrysler's largest, with 2,781 hourly workers at the South Assembly Plant. The vote was surprising because the plant makes Chrysler Town and Country and Dodge Caravan minivans, which are brand new for 2008 and expected to be top sellers, providing job security for several years.
Richard McDonaugh Jr., president of Local 1183 at Chrysler's Newark, Del., assembly plant, said 54 percent of votes there went against the deal. The local represents 1,100 hourly UAW members.
Although final totals from the 45,000 workers voting on the pact won't be made known until next week, the size and locations of the locals voting no are not good signs for leaders in Detroit, said Harley Shaiken, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who specializes in labor issues.
''The early results are abysmal,'' Shaiken said. ''Members have sent a message of considerable unrest.''
Dissident union members have used the Internet to voice opposition to the pact, and the UAW's national Chrysler negotiating chairman, Bill Parker, president of a local in suburban Detroit's Sterling Heights, has come out against it.
If the contract is rejected by UAW members, it would be the first time in at least two decades that has happened, Shaiken said.
The agreement was reached Oct. 10 after a six-hour strike, the same day the union announced that General Motors Corp. workers had approved a similar contract. If Chrysler workers vote it down, negotiators must go back to the bargaining table.
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