Officials at the United Automobile Workers, the American trade union, have finally reached an agreement with the leadership of General Motors. However the 200 union leaders who met on Thursday 17 October in Detroit did not call for an end to the strike that has been ongoing for more than one month. It will be up to the union members, which are some 46,000 in total, to make a decision on the content of the four-year deal negotiated with GM.
This agreement, which was ultimately endorsed by GM chief executive Mary Barra, offers serious guarantees on pay rises for permanent employees. They will enjoy increases of 3% in the second and fourth years. Meanwhile in the first and third years of the deal, such staff will be entitled to a bonus equal to 4% of their salary.
Temporary staff, who account for 7% of GM’s overall workforce, are also set to benefit from the deal. Such workers, who are paid by the hour, will see the path towards bec
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