With the deals likely to be approved, workers at Ford and Stellatis would join counterparts at General Motors in ratifying the record contracts, ending a contentious labor dispute that brought a punishing series of strikes over six weeks.
Voting at Jeep and Ram vehicle maker Stellantis is scheduled to officially end on Saturday night. Overall, 68.4% of Stellantis workers who cast ballots were in favor of ratification, and the contract was leading by more than 9,600 votes. At the company's huge pickup truck plant in Dearborn, Michigan, the vote was 78.7% in favor of the pact, giving it an insurmountable lead of more than 12,600 votes.Īt Stellantis, the deal was approved Friday by large margins at two big Detroit plants. On Friday, workers at Ford had voted 68.2% in favor of the deal with only seven smaller facilities yet to be counted by early Saturday. DETROIT (AP) - Members of the United Auto Workers union were close to approving contract agreements with Stellantis and Ford on Friday with voting at both companies overwhelmingly in favor and only a few factories yet to cast ballots.
