More GM Actions on Local Contracts: Parma and Mansfield Ohio

UPDATE 4/29/08

Well, while trolling around the tubes I found this little diddy about Mansfield's operations threatening a strike against GM

UAW Local 549 in Mansfield had threatened to strike this week if it did not have a new local contract. Local contracts deal with work rules and shift preferences while national contracts set wages and health care benefits.

...and at the end, they mention that the UAW Parma local REJECTED their contract:

Workers in Parma rejected a new local contract earlier this month. UAW Local 1005 President Tito Boneta, in a letter to his members, said voter turnout was less than 50 percent for that rejection, so the union's leadership is putting the tentative pact up for a new vote Wednesday.

Original story:
From UAW local 1005

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To All UAW Local 1005 Members


RATIFICATION MEETINGS
FOR LOCAL AGREEMENT
At the Local Union Hall
5615 Chevrolet Blvd.

FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008
6:30 A.M. - 3RD SHIFT
12:00 NOON - 2ND SHIFT
3:00 P.M. - 1ST SHIFT

VOTING FOR LOCAL AGREEMENT
WILL BE ON
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 2008
FROM 6:00 A.M. TO 8:00 P.M.
(14 continuous hours)
Tito Boneta
TITO BONETA PRESIDENT
LOCAL 1005, UAW Dan Smith
DAN SMITH, SHOP CHAIRMAN
LOCAL 1005, UAW



2007 Local Agreement Highlights

A Tentative Local Agreement was reached on April 8, 2008 at 8:00 P.M. by your Shop Committee, Health and Safety Representatives and our National and Regional Union Representatives, Mark Kelly and John Mohan.

Some of the highlights of the New 2007 Local Agreement are as follows:

All non skilled members will be paid equally the top rate “technician rate.”

Full utilization agreement in the Local Agreement for the Skilled Trades.

No combination of Skilled Trades classifications!

No infringements on #182 agreements!

Seniority Agreement split into two groups:
One section is specifically for the Technician classifications.
One section specifically for Skilled Trades classifications.

Five new team agreements.

Enhanced language pertaining to: Layoff and Recall procedure, Seniority Agreement, Team Preference, Shift Preference, Paragraph 71, Local Memorandum of Understandings, Language on Independence and Vacation weeks and Shutdown period, Model Change or Complex Rearrangement, Temporary layoffs, and Transfers.

I still lean toward the opinion that local agreements weaken the barganing position of the union, but I'm still celebrating the contract. Hopefully, it's a good one.

And, on a side note, the hall that's pictured on the local's site is where my cousin's wedding reception was held, ages ago. It's kind of cool to see it on the site.