UAW workers reject tentative labor agreement at Ford's Claycomo plant

Most likely, the UAW leadership would spend a few days talking to Ford workers in order to understand their concerns, and then ask Ford to return to the negotiating table.

Workers at Ford's Buffalo Stamping Plant, represented by UAW Local 897, joined Kansas City Assembly in voting against the deal on Sunday.

General Motors Company and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union are discussing details and language of the new labor agreement impacting 52,600 workers across GM's US manufacturing facilities. "Entry level will also have the same health care, vision and dental as well".

UAW members at Ford's Kansas City plant, which employs 7,500 workers, narrowly voted on Sunday to reject the deal. The vote was against the deal across the board, with 60.5% of production workers and 54.2% of skilled trades workers rejecting the deal.

The ratification process will be put on hold today because all Ford workers have the day off to recognize Veterans Day, which coincides with the start of deer hunting.

Williams said in the press release that "the majority of the entire UAW-GM membership voted in favor of the tentative agreement by a 55.4 percent to 44.6 percent margin".

Overall, the new contract commits Ford to $9 billion in spending at USA facilities, adding or retaining 8,500 jobs.

Under the tentative contract, the Ohio Assembly plant would receive $250 million in new investments, including a new product. Whether the national deal is ratified will be determined by a national tally of votes.

One of the most prominent points of contention skilled trades have with the new contract is that it does not offer skilled trades the same retirement incentives as it does to production line workers. Why? It's scheduled to receive $200 million in new investments over the four-year pact.

Workers at plants in Chicago, Romeo, Wayne and Woodhaven also have voted in favor of the agreement, while workers at an axle plant in Sterling Heights voted against it.

But if Ford and the UAW's leaders were to reach a hard impasse, the UAW could resort to strikes. UAW workers at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles ratified a new four-year agreement last month.

In contrast, workers approved the local talks about plant-specific issues by 71 percent among production workers and 66 percent among the skilled trades.