The UAW said its executive board voted today to ratify a new labor contract with Chrysler despite divided support for the deal between skilled trades and production workers. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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A majority of Chrysler’s UAW-represented production workers voted to approve the new labor agreement with Detroit’s No. 3 automaker, but a majority of skilled trades workers voted to reject the deal.
UAW President Bob King was scheduled to hold a conference call today at 5:30 p.m. ET to discuss the situation.
Because a majority of the union’s skilled trades members voted against the tentative hourly agreement, the union said today its executive board investigated the reasons skilled members voted against the proposed.
The board determined that the reasons for rejection were “predominantly economic and not unique to skilled trades members,” the union said in a statement.
“Accordingly, the (executive board) declared the agreements ratified under the UAW constitution,” the union said.
