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BrianLaws
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject: UAW Local 136 "NO" |
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2,850 workers.................
I got a phone call tonight.
I was told 81% at St. Louis North voted NO!
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Catnip
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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Well, there's one. How many others? |
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StressedMom
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| Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: St Louis Unionized |
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 St louis has it going on. They know what it means to be unionized. At 81%, they fight together, they stick together |
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i hope we get a turn out like that. |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 1:17 am Post subject: |
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The engine plant in Kenosha, WI approved it by an 82% margin, but they only employ 800 people. The St. Louis plant has over 2,100 employees. This is great news, and hopefully the first step to getting this thing shot down. |
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OldSchool
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UAW locals split on Chrysler deal
By JIM SALTER, AP Business Writer Fri Oct 19, 12:46 AM ET
FENTON, Mo. - Workers at Chrysler LLC's pickup truck plant in suburban St. Louis rejected a tentative four-year labor contract between the United Auto Workers and the automaker.
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Roughly 1,400 of the plant's 2,100 employees voted, with about 80 percent rejecting the deal, said Jerry Dennison, president of UAW Local 136.
"It actually failed by a larger margin than I thought it would," Dennison said Thursday night after the votes were tallied.
UAW members at Chrysler's North Assembly Plant in Fenton were among the first Chrysler employees to vote on the contract. Those workers make Dodge Ram pickups.
The 2,900 members of UAW Local 110 at the nearby South Assembly Plant, which makes Chrysler Town and Country and Dodge Caravan minivans, vote Friday.
Union officials said workers were bothered by the contract's creation of "core" and "noncore" workers at the Fenton plant, with newly hired noncore workers being paid a lower hourly wage.
The contract did not specify which jobs would be designated noncore if the deal is approved, they said.
"There were people voting who didn't know if their job would be shuffled to a noncore job," said Local 136 Treasurer Glenn Kage Jr.
Meanwhile, workers at a Chrysler engine plant in Kenosha, Wis., voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve the tentative agreement, reached Oct. 10 after a six-hour strike.
UAW Local 72 President Dan Kirk said 78 percent of workers voted for the deal.
The UAW represents about 800 workers at the Kenosha engine plant, Kirk said. The plant recently was given a new six-cylinder engine to build.
All of Chrysler's 45,000 UAW employees are expected to complete voting sometime next week.
Kirk said the national bargaining committee worked hard to bring back the best deal it could.
"We're not really happy with it, but it is what it is," Kirk said. "It's a contract we can live with."
The chairman of the UAW's national Chrysler negotiating committee is among those criticizing the tentative deal.
Bill Parker, who also is president of a local, wrote an undated "minority report" letter that urged the union's Chrysler Council to reject the agreement and return to the bargaining table.
The council, made up of presidents and other local officials from across the country, approved the deal on a voice vote Monday at a meeting in Detroit.
Parker's letter says the deal's lower tier wage scale for some entry-level employees would create divisions within the union. It also says the Chrysler deal fell short of one that General Motors Corp. workers agreed to earlier this month, including a failure to guarantee vehicle commitments to many plants beyond current products.
The votes come as UAW officials in Detroit stepped up efforts to convince the rank-and-file to approve the pact in the face of dissent by a top bargainer.
The deal closely follows a tentative agreement ratified by workers at General Motors Corp., and is expected to be used as a template for negotiations with Ford Motor Co. The union won guarantees that Chrysler will continue to build vehicles or parts at most of its U.S. plants, at least through the life of the contract.
A Chrysler spokeswoman declined comment on the future of any plants.
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Associated Press Writer Christopher Leonard in Fenton and AP Auto Writer Tom Krisher in Detroit contributed to this report. |
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:58 am Post subject: |
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Is there anyway can we please get a read only sticky of all the plants. When they are voting and what were the % after they did. Thanks! |
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BrianLaws
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| Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:26 am Post subject: |
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This section was created to show each plants results. Each plants voting results should be posted clearly like I did St. Louis and in it 's own thread.
I don't want to make it read only, because I want people to comment on the results for each plant. |
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I just saw on the topix.com forum Detroit Axle voted no, but didn't have the numbers. I sent a message asking for the percentage margin. When I get them, I will post them. Also, Twinsburg results- 57% no 43% yes. So far 3 plants have voted this thing down, and only one has passed it. So far so good!!! |
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With the totals and percentages I have seen, it's looking like it will come down to the wire. Total margins after 4 plants tallies are: 52.5%-no, and 47.5%-yes. This could get interesting!! |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 9:13 am Post subject: St Louis south |
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Add St Louis South to the "no" vote Brain.
Local 110, 3,0000 members
79% production against
56% skilled against |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:43 am Post subject: local 136 |
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brothers and sisters local 136 was a fight. and a tuff one we was the first at the battle of this bull crap voting and trust me we gave the local president ans the international all they could handle. i have heard it was so bad that they the international reps actually changed how they addressed the members and on how they let the members talk . like i said i was shut down many times from the general's assistant goooooooooon. now i have been told that ghettofinger is actually going to make some rounds to the unions next week telling his lies. stand up and fight people VOTE NO. i will try to get back to missouri some time sunday i will keep up and post more info as soon as i am home james THANKS TO ALL. |
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Well done in your plant james, I only wish our vote next door would have been greater margins.  |
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