Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union at General Motors’ Spring Hill, Tennessee plant and Ford’s Louisville, Kentucky truck plant voted no on a pair of recently proposed contract agreements between the union and two of the Detroit Big Three automakers November 13.
According to NPR, 54.5% of the 4,118 ballots cast in Louisville, where Ford’s largest plant is located, voted against the deal. Simultaneously, 67.5% of UAW workers at GM’s Spring Hill, Tennessee plant voted against the new contract, according to The Detroit News.
"There were a lot of gains," said Jenn Thompson, a worker at the Kentucky Truck Plant who voted against the contract. "But there were just a few things that I would have liked to have seen in this contract that didn't make it."
Fifty-two percent of UAW members at GM’s Flint, Michigan assembly plant, which employs about 4,700 workers, also voted against the proposal during the week of November 7 prior to the latest contract rejections.
Final tallies on the contract votes are expected to be announced this week as well as next week. If any of the contracts proposed by Ford, GM or Stellantis fail to receive a majority of votes , then negotiators will likely have to return to the bargaining table.
The UAW announced October 31 that it had reached a tentative deal with GM that would have given union members a 30% overall increase in wages over the life of the contract, which is set to expire April 2028 if ratified. The union also reached tentative deals with Ford October 26 and Stellantis October 30.
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