Members of General Motors’ United Automobile Workers union ratified a tentative contract in a closely contested vote, according to a tally of results from all GM locals released by the union on Thursday.
The contract was supported by 55 percent of the nearly 36,000 members who voted. Majorities at several large GM factories voted against the deal.
Tentative agreements with Ford and Stellantis, the maker of brands such as Jeep and Chrysler, appear poised to be approved by higher margins, incomplete results show.
The agreements increase the maximum wage for production workers by 25 percent, to more than $40 in four and a half years, from $32. They were reached last month after a six-week wave of strikes that paralyzed automakers, a strategy spearheaded by the union’s new president, Shawn Fain, who had promised to take a harder line in negotiations than his predecessors.
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