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NUMMI Workers Ratify Plant Closing Package
Some 4,500 UAW Local 2244 members have ratified a closing agreement for the Fremont, Calif., plant with New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. (NUMMI). In today’s ratification vote, members of Local 2244 approved the agreement by a margin of 90 percent.
UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles praised members of the Local 2244 bargaining committee for their hard work and solidarity.
We are all deeply saddened to see these operations come to an end. While this is not the outcome we had hoped for, the terms of this agreement will certainly help cushion the impact for our members.
UAW Region 5 Director Jim Wells says the NUMMI workers’ solidarity and support from the union movement helped the workers through a difficult time.
We are grateful to the members for the solidarity they’ve shown throughout this process. We also want to thank our brothers and sisters in the labor movement, community leaders and consumers across the country for the support they’ve given the NUMMI workers.
Established as a joint venture between General Motors (GM) and Toyota Motors in 1984, the NUMMI facility most recently built the Pontiac Vibe, Toyota Corolla and Tacoma pickup. As part of a structured bankruptcy, GM eliminated its Pontiac brand in 2009. Shortly after, Toyota announced its intention to close the NUMMI facility on April 1, 2010.
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American Workers are such scared, spineless morons when they agree to this kind of blackmail and our organized labor leaders are accomplices in the blackmail when they accede. Since Reagan fired the Flight Controllers and the big shots ran scared, we’ve been getting bent over ever since. No American worker should ever buy a Toyota in thier lives, I won’t
I do not agree with the last comment! American workers are good hard working people and can do the job just as good as any other worker in the world if not better!! But our country went from a capitalism based society to a “Extreme Greed, Low Wage based society” I also believe Americans should not buy a Toyota if for nothing but what they did to the employees at the NUMMI plant. And Yes when that Actor fired the Air traffic Controllers /PATCO Lane Kirkland should have closed down the countryfor a day or a week or more? But Now we have Richard Trumka President of the AFL-CIO and he is NO Lane Kirkland. He is a True Labor Leader and a Good Man and now we have President Obama who is trying to cleen up this big mess after years and years of decline. I believe in very few things you have to be paitent for change for change is slow History has showed us this. So pick your battles and support President Obama, President Trumka and all Organized Labor! And Keep the Faith!
The UAW leadership acts like they’re supervising the union’s dismantlement rather than building for the future of the labor movement. It’s time to do things differently. Why not legally take over the plant from Toyota and get the rights from GM to produce a version of the Vibe or other one-time Pontiac vehicle? In Argentina the government provided loan guarantees to workers to take over management of their businesses and it proved a big success. With all the money in pension funds, unions ought to be able to provide the money without having to go to the banks or the government. If you want workers’ power, get worker’s control.