Workers at General Motors’ Massena, New York engine plant have become the first to reject the proposed four-year labor contract between GM and the UAW. Union members voted 172 to 137 against the new contract that calls for the closure of the Massena plant in 2008.
“The members had thought maybe they’d be able to save the plant in negotiations,” Local 465 President Tony Arquiett told the Detroit Free Press. “It’s a big shock to see it in writing like that.”
Since the tentative agreement between the UAW and GM, two plant unions — from the Orion Township plant, which will continue to make the Pontiac G6 through 2012, and the Flint engine and stamping plant — have ratified the contract.
