Fiat Chrysler workers reject UAW contract at Michigan and Indiana plants

[TexasTowelie]

Workers at Fiat Chrysler’s stamping plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan, a casting plant in Kokomo, Indiana and a Mopar parts facility in Centerline, Michigan have defeated the contract being pushed by the United Auto Workers in the first votes being reported from major factories. The deal was also rejected at smaller parts depots in Colorado and Los Angeles.

Fifty-seven percent of the production workers and 61 percent of the skilled trades rejected the agreement at the suburban Detroit stamping plant Thursday, according to the UAW Local 1264 Facebook page. There are 2,000 workers at the Sterling stamping plant.

Fifty-nine percent of production workers voted to reject the contract while skilled trades workers split the vote at Kokomo Casting, a source at UAW Local 1166 reported to the Detroit News. The factory employs 1,100 workers.

Sixty-five percent of production workers and 52 percent of skilled trades voted “no” at Local 1248, which encompasses some 700 workers at the Mopar parts distribution center in Centerline, another Detroit suburb.

Read more: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/09/25/chry-s25.html

[Sherman A1]

1. I hope that things can be worked out

in the not too distant future.