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For over a month, the three major Detroit automakers (General Motors, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and Ford), have been negotiating new four year contracts with the United Automobile Workers (UAW). Thus far, only Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) has come to an accord. However, the General Motors (GM) is looking to appease the UAW with their latest proposal, and the outlooks seems optimistic.
The FCA contract was a hard fought arrangement. For the first time in 30 years, a UAW representative approved plan was rejected by the rank and file members of the UAW. The overarching reason being the two tier pay scale, workers in all three Detroit UAW branches are attempting to phase out the implementation of said system. The FCA compromised without removing the system. They renamed the tier two workers and set in place a series of promotions that would yield a pay grade similar to the tier one workers after the course of eight years. …show more content…

They need for the contract to go through, or at least for the workers not to strike; to keep competitive. As is, GM factories are building at capacity while demand is still surging, a strike would cripple the company by costing them untold millions (pro tempore). General Motors CEO; Mary T Barra; said that she could not imagine a viable option outside of awarding workers what they want.
Some have conveyed concern with the FCA’s initial repudiation. It had been so long since a similar act has surfaced, that the veto was met by astonished apprehension. In a sense, people had not been taking the UAW seriously.
Around the turn of the millennia, the UAW was being accused of corruption by everyone actual union workers to labor. Along these lines, were the allegations that the UAW had ties to the Mafia. That mixed with the lingering idea that UAW were simply overpaid slackers resulted free fall in

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