{"id":385520,"date":"2018-11-18T06:07:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T05:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uaw-hides-details-of-new-tentative-agreement-from-indiana-lear-workers\/"},"modified":"2018-11-18T06:07:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T05:07:52","slug":"uaw-hides-details-of-new-tentative-agreement-from-indiana-lear-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uaw-hides-details-of-new-tentative-agreement-from-indiana-lear-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"UAW hides details of new tentative agreement from Indiana Lear workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UAW hides details of new tentative agreement from Indiana Lear workers<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Marcus Day<br \/>\n    <br \/>17 November 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p><em>The WSWS urges workers interested in forming rank-and-file committees at their plants to<\/em> <a href=\"mailto:auto@socialistequality.com\"> <em>contact us<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The United Auto Workers is again seeking to force through a sellout agreement at Lear Corporation\u2019s auto parts factories in Hammond and Portage, Indiana. The latest maneuvers come a little less than one month after workers defied the union and decisively rejected, by 74 percent, a UAW-backed contract proposal that would have maintained the hated multi-tier system. Workers are determined to conduct a struggle against poverty wages, starting as low as $12.10 an hour at the Portage seating \u201csub-assembly\u201d plant, and decades of declining living standards and working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>On November 9, a UAW Local 2335 committee member sent an official notice to workers reporting that a new tentative agreement had been reached. Incredibly, the notice provided no information about the deal or when it would be released.<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageLeft\" style=\"width:200px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/88103580-eb6e-4f96-a874-84bf58e875dN\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/88103580-eb6e-4f96-a874-84bf58e875dN\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"200\" style=\"width:200px;\" \/><span>Announcement of a new tentative agreement<\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThank you for your patience throughout these negotiations,\u201d the announcement stated. \u201cAfter several days and many late nights, the Union and Company have reached a Tentative Agreement late last night &#8211; November 8, 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetails (dates, times, locations) where the ratification meetings and voting will be held; will be available soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the notice quietly sent to Lear workers, the union and the company have given no public indication that a deal has been reached, seeking to keep news of it out of the press and away from the attention of workers at other plants.<\/p>\n<p>There is every reason to suspect that the UAW is trying to hide that it is pushing essentially the same agreement that workers already&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/11\/17\/lear-n17.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UAW hides details of new tentative agreement from Indiana Lear workers By Marcus Day 17 November 2018 The WSWS urges workers interested in forming rank-and-file committees at their plants to contact us. The United Auto Workers is again seeking to force through a sellout agreement at Lear Corporation\u2019s auto parts factories in Hammond and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-385520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}