With a ratification vote scheduled for Wednesday, new information has emerged refuting UAW claims that it won the “best contract in 25 years.”
The tentative contract includes pay increases, a cost-of-living adjustment for all employees and better retirement benefits.
The union's president said they won back true profit sharing, got more vacation days for members as well as better retirement benefits.
Rank-and-file opposition is growing over the last-minute agreement reached by the UAW to prevent a strike by 800 aircraft engine workers.
The union, with more than 1 million members, touted Trump’s decision to place a new round of 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
Rolls-Royce workers in Indianapolis have agreed to a new contract, averting a strike after negotiations with the UAW led to a deal that includes wage increases and improved profit sharing.
The United Auto Workers union's president Shawn Fain said on Wednesday its members representing Rolls Royce's Indianapolis Local 933 unit reached a tentative agreement with the company.
When Leon Bates’ grandfather would travel Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Kentucky as an International Representative of the United Auto Workers union in the forties, fifties and sixties, he always carried extra white shirts so he could look fresh coming off the road and a satchel with a pair of important books at his reach.
A union representing thousands of auto workers in Kansas and Missouri is supporting new tariffs placed on China, Mexico, and Canada by the Trump Administration.