In what has been described as a “tight vote,” members of the United Auto Workers at General Motors are expected to finish voting on the tentative contract agreement reached earlier this month between the automaker and the union.
It’s the first of three ratification votes union members have been asked to make. Tentative deals with Ford Motor Co. and Stellantis NV have also been sent to UAW members for a vote.
The union is expected to announce its GM results Thursday, according to multiple reports.
If the union’s 146,000 members approve the contracts it would raise pay for autoworkers, with increases and cost-of-living adjustments that would translate into a 33% wage gain. Top assembly plant workers would earn roughly $42 per hour when the contracts expire in April 2028, according to an Associated Press report.
Voting continues at Ford through early Saturday, where 66.1% of workers voted in favor so far with only a few large factories still counting. The contract was passing overwhelmingly at Stellantis, where voting continues until Tuesday, according to the AP. The union’s vote tracker on Wednesday also showed that 66.1% voted in favor with many large factories yet to finish casting ballots.
Workers at GM’s large SUV plant in Arlington, Texas, have approved the deal, according to the AP. Members in Wentzville, Missouri; Lansing Delta Township, Michigan; and Spring Hill, Tennessee – the other three GM plants at which the UAW struck — voted it down.
Several smaller facilities were still voting, many of them parts warehouses or component factories where workers got big pay raises and were expected to approve the contract, according to multiple reports.
