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Pete Bigelow · In Final Hours of Voting, UAW Ratification of Ford Contract All But Assured
October 18th, 2011
Consider the United Auto Workers tentative agreement with Ford as good as ratified.
While voting does not end until later today, all signs point to approval for the four-year contract that offers $6,000 signing bonuses but no annual cost-of-living adjustments. In a Tuesday morning update, the UAW Ford Department said 63.2 percent of voters had approved the deal, with 78 percent of Locals reporting results.
Voting ends Tuesday night. But it would take a huge reversal in voting trends for the ratification to fail. The Detroit Free Press reports there is still “major opposition” to the deal at two assembly plants in Louisville, Ky., where approximately 5,000 votes have yet to be counted.
But it would take near-unified opposition to put the deal in jeopardy. Right now, 16,691 have voted for the deal, while 9,698 had voted against it.
Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes writes today that an affirmation of the contract paves the way for a “New Detroit,” chiefly with the creation of 12,000 jobs and competitive footing with the global automotive economy.
“The case for whether the New Detroit is for real, or just a repackaged version of the same ol’ dysfunctional Motor City, depends on hourly workers at Ford Motor Co.,” he writes. “It’s that simple.”
