Autoworkers from closed plants fight new GM contract

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If they can close our plant, they can close yours, too. That's the message from workers at three shuttered General Motors factories that didn't get new products under the tentative contract agreement reached last week between GM and the United Auto Workers, who have been on strike against the company across the U.S. for over six weeks now.

A picketer carries sign at one of the gates outside the closed General Motors automobile assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, on Sept. 16, 2019. Last Updated Tuesday, October 22, 2019 5:48PM EDTThat's the message from workers at three shuttered General Motors factories that didn't get new products under the tentative contract agreement reached last week between GM and the United Auto Workers, who have been on strike against the company across the U.S. for over six weeks now.

But few are holding out hope they can torpedo the contract, which comes with an $11,000 signing bonus, pay raises and plenty of other economic goodies for the factories that are staying open. He questioned why union leaders agreed to let GM close the factories, wondering if corruption inside the UAW influenced the decision to side with the company.

At a meeting of factory-level union leaders in Detroit last week, Dan Morgan, bargaining chairman for the local in Lordstown, made a plea to vote the contract down, saying they should stay on strike until GM keeps the plants open. Voting wraps up on Friday, with the final tally to be released that evening. As of Tuesday, the deal was winning by more than 1,000 votes.

 

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Fuck GM, they shouldn't be allowed back in the country! THEY STOLE PENSIONS, THEY OWE BILLIONS IN TAXES, THEY RAN BACK TO THE US WITH CANADA'S MONEY! THE HARPER GOVT USED OUR CPP TO GIVE GM EMPLOYEES THEIR MASSIVE PENSIONS, AT OUR EXPENSE! KEEP GM THIEVES OUT OF CANADA!

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