Workers at GM plants in Ohio and Maryland have won a landslide financial victory after an arbitrator ruled they were owed nearly $8 million in back pay. Mike Booth, UAW vice president for the GM department, announced the compensation in a letter to members. The issue that led to the judgment was the closing of three plants in 2019, which the ruling stated violated the union’s 2015 contract. The ruling and the expense involved comes shortly after GM stated that the newly ratified contracts with the UAW and Unifor – the Canadian union – will increase labor costs by $1.5 billion in 2024.
Read the full story by Jamie L. LaReau for the Detroit Free Press, published December 7, 2023, here: https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2023/12/07/gm-must-pay-8-million-2019-plant-closures-lordstown-warren-transmission/71842614007/
