Chrysler-UAW Contract: Done Deal
October 29, 2007

It was close, but members of the United Auto Workers union approved a new four-year contract with Chrysler over the weekend.

Some union locals rejected the deal, saying it didn’t contain product assignments for specific plants and job guarantees comparable to those negotiated in the General Motors contract. The agreement, reached after a nearly seven-hour strike, includes a union-run independent retiree health care trust and, Chrysler said, improves the automaker’s competitiveness.

The UAW said the contract got yes votes from: 56 percent of production workers, 51 percent of skilled-trade workers, 94 percent of office and clerical workers, and 79 percent of engineering workers.

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