The UAW’s Next Challenge: Getting Workers to Vote Yes

United Auto Workers leaders bargained for months and called a historic strike before clinching tentative agreements with Detroit’s automakers. Now, rank-and-file workers get the final say.  

UAW members at local chapters across the country begin voting as soon as this week on the labor pacts with Ford Motor, General Motors and Chrysler parent Stellantis. The proposed contracts, which include a 25% wage hike and a return of cost-of-living adjustments, increase pay more than several contracts over the past two decades combined.