Thursday, October 8, 2015

STRIKE AVERTED

A proposed tentative agreement between the United Automobile Workers and Fiat Chrysler has been reached, averting a strike. According to a statement from UWA, after a lengthy bargaining process, the UAW FCA National Bargaining Committee says it has secured significant gains in a proposed Tentative Agreement with FCA US. The bargaining committee unanimously voted to send the proposed Tentative Agreement to local union leaders who make up the union’s UAW National Chrysler Council. The UAW Chrysler Council will meet in Detroit at 11 am on Friday to discuss and vote on the agreement.

Until the UAW National Chrysler Council votes to approve the deal, it is classified as a proposed Tentative Agreement. The contract language becomes a Tentative Agreement if the Council votes to approve it as such. Providing the Council approves, the UAW will release details of the Tentative Agreement to its membership and the ratification process will begin. A vote of the UAW FCA membership will decide whether or not the deal is finalized.

If the UAW Chrysler Council adopts the Tentative Agreement Friday, the union plans to make the details of the agreement available immediately.