![]() Local 249 represents active and retired workers at the Ford Motor Kansas City. "GM also agreed to give temporary workers some paid time off and allow them to apply for open full-time jobs after three years as a temp," according to Michigan Public Radio. United Auto Workers Local 249, Pleasant Valley, Missouri. The contract brings workers hired after 2007 up to the same wage as older workers in four years, and keeps worker health benefits with low premiums. The UAW says the contract includes an economic package of an $11,000 per member signing bonus, performance bonuses, two 3% annual raises and two 4% lump sum payments and holding the line on health care costs. ![]() "Their sacrifice and courageous stand addressed the two-tier wages structure and permanent temporary worker classification that has plagued working class Americans." UAW Vice President Terry Dittes said the union is proud of the workers. The UAW announced the deal's approval after voting ended Friday.Įmployees will return to work as instructed by GM. Some 40 days after United Automobile Workers walked off the job, picketing General Motors plants and grinding operations to a halt, the labor union's members have ratified the tentative deal their representatives struck with the automaker earlier this month. On Friday the union's members voted to ratify a tentative deal with the automaker, bringing an end to a national strike that lasted 40 days. ![]() A member of the United Auto Workers pickets earlier this month outside a General Motors facility in Langhorne, Pa. ![]()
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