Workers at more of Chrysler Group’s largest plants have voted to approve a tentative four-year labor contract between the company and the UAW, paving the way for ratification this week of the last Detroit 3 labor contract to be negotiated this year. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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The UAW is expected to announce final results by Wednesday morning.
In the latest results, hourly workers at Chrysler’s Toledo assembly complex — which produces the Dodge Nitro, Jeep Liberty and Jeep Wrangler — voted Monday to approve the contract, officials at UAW Local 12 told The Toledo Blade newspaper today.
Toledo workers approved the contract by 54 percent to 46 percent, Jeep Unit chairman Dan Henneman told the newspaper. It was the first time workers in Toledo have voted for a national contract since 1987. The plant has maintained a separate contract with the union since Chrysler purchased the former American Motors Corp. and the Jeep brand in 1987, the Blade reported.
“It’s not a great contract, but it’s a good contract in tough economic times,” Henneman told the newspaper. “Mostly though it’s about putting product in the plant, and I think this helps secure our plant’s long-term future.”
Meanwhile, workers at Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit and Sterling Heights Assembly plants in the Detroit suburbs, which collectively represent more than 5,000 hourly workers, voted to ratify the deal last Friday, according to the UAW official, who asked not to be named because the information is private.
