Union employees at Daimler Truck who make Freightliner and Western Celebrity vans and Thomas Constructed buses in North Carolina gained important raises and price of residing allowances.
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Union employees at Daimler Truck who make Freightliner and Western Celebrity vans and Thomas Constructed buses in North Carolina gained important raises and price of residing allowances.
Karen Bleier/AFP by way of Getty Pictures
The United Auto Employees union introduced past due Friday it had struck a good new contract deal for 7,300 Daimler Truck North The us employees. The union had threatened a strike beginning in the dead of night when their ultimate contract expired. A overwhelming majority of the union staff paintings at vegetation in North Carolina, the place Daimler makes Freightliner and Western Celebrity vans and Thomas Constructed buses. A smaller selection of employees team of workers portions distribution facilities in Atlanta and Memphis. The UAW first unionized employees at Daimler Truck beginning within the Nineties. Just like the Giant 3 autoworkers who walked off the activity ultimate fall, Daimler employees were not easy important raises, reviving the “report income imply report contracts” slogan of ultimate 12 months’s strike.
The union mentioned the brand new contract incorporated raises of no less than 25% over 4 years, in addition to value of residing allowances and benefit sharing, firsts for Daimler Truck employees since they joined the UAW. The ones good points are very similar to what the union secured for Giant 3 employees ultimate fall. Union employees nonetheless want to ratify the deal.
Previous Friday, Daimler Truck issued a commentary announcing it used to be engaged in just right religion negotiations with the UAW, operating towards new contracts that would receive advantages all sides and “permit Daimler Truck North The us to proceed handing over the goods that permit our consumers to stay the arena transferring.” The fruits of the talks comes only a week after the UAW scored a momentous victory in every other Southern state, profitable a union election at Volkswagen’s plant in Chattanooga, Tenn. It used to be the union’s 3rd try at organizing the plant, after the primary two resulted in slender defeats.
On Might 13, employees on the Mercedes-Benz plant in Vance, Ala., will start balloting on whether or not to enroll in the UAW. As soon as a part of the similar corporate, Daimler Truck break up with Mercedes-Benz in 2021. Nonetheless, an result observed as favorable to employees in North Carolina may give the UAW a spice up no longer handiest within the upcoming Mercedes-Benz election, but additionally union drives underway at Hyundai, Toyota, and Honda, different foreign-owned auto vegetation within the South. The UAW pledged previous this 12 months to spend $40 million on organizing efforts via 2026, with a focal point at the South.
