
UAW Declares Victory in BlueOval SK Union Vote
Clip: Season 4 Episode 44 | 2m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
The 11-point margin could be overturned, depending on the outcome of 41 contested ballots.
The UAW is declaring victory in a union vote at the BlueOval SK Battery Park in Glendale. Workers say the issues in the vote included wages, benefits, and safety. There was just an 11-vote margin. BlueOval is challenging 41 ballots.
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UAW Declares Victory in BlueOval SK Union Vote
Clip: Season 4 Episode 44 | 2m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
The UAW is declaring victory in a union vote at the BlueOval SK Battery Park in Glendale. Workers say the issues in the vote included wages, benefits, and safety. There was just an 11-vote margin. BlueOval is challenging 41 ballots.
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Yes.
That's the message.
After a narrow win by the pro-Union side, in two days of voting by workers at the Blue Oval esque Battery Park in Glendale.
But it was a very close vote, and the company is challenging the outcome.
Wgcu Public Radio reports more than a thousand workers voted.
Workers say the issues and the vote included wages, benefits and safety.
526 hourly production and maintenance workers voted to join the United Auto Workers.
515 oppose the Move to Go union.
That's a winning margin of 11.
But Blue Oval is challenging 41 ballots.
There are 41 workers who voted.
Even though their eligibility to vote is being determined by the National Labor Relations Board.
A decision on those 41 votes could determine the result.
But the UAW, UAW says that challenge is just a tactic to undermine the outcome.
The United Auto Workers put out a statement saying, quote, we will fight these challenges to defend the democratic choices of these workers, as we always do when corporations try to interfere with workers democratic choice and, quote, if the victory stands, workers would form their own local chapter and start working on a contract with Blue Oval.
Ask some Kentucky UAW workers are on strike right now.
More than 600 General Electric workers in Erlanger, Kentucky, and Avondale, Ohio, went on strike last Thursday after failing to reach a new contract agreement.
The Erlanger facility provides parts to some GE engine plants.
General electric says it's disappointed the union decided to strike before employees had a chance to vote on the proposed contract.
Governor Andy Beshear had some thoughts today on the Blue Oval union vote.
Here they are.
I am a pro-union governor, and I think that the vote of the employees should be recognized.
If it indeed ends up being a union facility, I think what the company is going to see is that union workers are some of the best workers, and the ability to attract even more workers will be a positive in the long term for Blue Oval.
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