UAW members at GM Spring Hill plant turn down contract

General Motors Co. workers at plants in multiple states are voting against a tentative contract between the United Auto Workers and the automaker, according to the UAW’s vote tracker and results released by union locals.

Members at GM’s assembly plants in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and Lansing/Delta Township overwhelmingly voted against the proposed deal along with workers at the automaker’s Toledo Propulsion Systems plant and Tonawanda, New York, engine plant.

The union’s tentative agreements that cover 146,000 autoworkers at the Detroit Three offer 27% compounded wage increases, cost-of-living adjustments, increased retirement contributions, billions of dollars in investments and product allocation, and a pathway to full-time for temporary or supplemental workers who will start at $21 per hour. The UAW reached deals with the GM, Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis NV after more than 40 days of targeted plant strikes.

GM and the UAW declined to comment Tuesday on the ratification results.

Sixty-eight percent of members of Local 1853 at Spring Hill voted against the contract, according to the union’s vote tracker. Workers at Spring Hill make the GMC Acadia SUV, the Cadillac XT5, XT6 SUVS and the all-electric Cadillac Lyriq SUV.

At Local 602, 61% of members working at GM’s Lansing Delta plant voted against the contract, according to results on the local’s website. The Buick Enclave and Chevrolet Traverse are both manufactured at the Lansing Delta plant.

At the Toledo Propulsion transmission plant, 56% of members at Local 14 voted no on the contract, according to the local’s results obtained and confirmed by The Detroit News. And at Tonawanda Engine, which will receive a $300 million investment for electric vehicle drive unit production if the contract passes, 57% of members at Local 774 vote no, according to the UAW’s vote tracker.

Last week, a majority of Local 598 members at GM’s Flint Truck plant voted against the deal, with 51.8% rejecting it, according to results shared on the local’s Facebook page last week.

Workers like Stephanie Riley, a 17-year GM employee at GM’s Flint Assembly heavy-duty truck plant, voted no on the tentative agreement.

“The bottom line is that traditional members feel like we’ve been waiting forever for a fair contract,” Riley said in a statement. “And though we are very happy that the tiers and temps are being brought up to full wage, we are tired of taking the back-burner. Our wages haven’t reflected inflation in a long time. And a lot of us are really feeling the effects of an inflated economy.”

UAW members at other large GM plants, including the Fort Wayne, Indiana, assembly plant where light-duty trucks are built, are voting on the tentative contract Tuesday.

Workers at GM’s Fairfax Assembly in Kansas, members of Local 31, approved the contract with 52% voting in favor of the deal, according to the UAW’s vote tracker. Fairfax will receive a $391 million investment for EVs if the contract passes. The Cadillac XT4 SUV and Chevrolet Malibu sedan are both made at Fairfax.

Some Ford workers have also voted against their proposed contract. More than 54% of workers at Ford’s Kentucky Truck plant voted no on the deal, according to the UAW’s vote tracker.

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