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UAW President’s Home Union Local Votes Against Stellantis Strike
- Carmaker and UAW have been wrangling over investment plans
- Oct. 25 union vote failed to get two-thirds support required
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United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain’s hometown local in Kokomo, Indiana, failed to authorize a strike against Stellantis NV, setting back his efforts to pressure the automaker to abide by investment pledges made after a six-week walkout last fall.
A vote held Oct. 25 at UAW Local 1166 — which represents the company’s Kokomo casting plant — failed to get the two-thirds support required to authorize a strike, according to an email from Stellantis sent to employees Monday. As a result, Local 1166 withdrew a grievance it had filed over Stellantis’ plans to delay investment in a new auto-parts hub and assembly plant in Illinois, senior vice president of human resources Tobin Williams said in the email.