Members of the United Auto Workers have ratified a new labor contract with Daimler Truck that includes at least a 25% general wage increase over the four-year deal, as reported by David Shepardson for Reuters.
The deal with the German truck maker comes just about two weeks before votes on whether to join the UAW will be tallied at a Mercedes assembly plant in Alabama. I Photo: Daimler Truck
The vote was 94.5% in favor of the new contract, which covers more than 7,300 hourly UAW workers after a tentative agreement was reached in late April, averting a strike at the 11th hour.
The contract covers hourly workers at six facilities in southern states where unionization has traditionally been low, including four factories in North Carolina and parts warehouses in Georgia and Tennessee.
The deal with the German truck maker, which was spun off from what is now the automaker Mercedes, comes just about two weeks before votes on whether to join the UAW will be tallied at a Mercedes assembly plant in Alabama.
The deal also includes profit-sharing and cost-of-living adjustments for workers at the maker of Freightliner and Western Star trucks and Thomas Built buses, as well as the end of wage tiers that paid those building buses less than those building heavy trucks.
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