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UAW's Attention Shifts To Ford
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The Chrysler deal appeared close to passing after workers at four plants outside Detroit approved the deal on Wednesday night, according to a person familiar with the process who spoke on condition of anonymity because results are not official. Voting at one remaining Chrysler assembly plant, in Belvidere, Ill., is scheduled to begin today.
The plants account for about one-fifth of the 45,000 Chrysler factory workers covered by the contract.
The UAW represents about 55,000 workers at Ford.
The Chrysler deal faced widespread opposition from members who feared that the union gave up too much without company commitments to keep the plants open.
"It looks like my local has passed it, and I'm afraid that it might pass overall," said Brett Ward, a worker at Chrysler's Sterling Heights, Mich. assembly plant, whose employees voted Wednesday.
He said that in the contract, Chrysler did not guarantee that it would continue to produce cars at the plant once production for current models ends. The factory builds the Chrysler Sebring and the Dodge Avenger.
"We are extremely vulnerable," he said.
