CNH Industrial Workers May Approve New Deal
The United Auto Workers president says the union is close to reaching another agreement with CNH Industrial that improves a deal rejected by striking workers earlier this month.
In an interview with The Associated Press Thursday, President Ray Curry said he鈥檚 hopeful the deal will be reached 鈥渨ithin the next week or two鈥 and presented to members for another vote.
More than 1,000 workers have been on strike at CNH plants in Iowa and Wisconsin for nearly nine months. On聽聽from the maker of construction and agricultural equipment and stayed on the picket lines.
The company, Curry said, has been talking with the UAW since the rejection. 鈥淲e believe that there is going to be an offer that鈥檚 there that the membership will see in a different light, with adjustments, not the same offer,鈥 he said.
Workers at the two plants previously rejected at the start of the strike a three-year deal that included 18.5% raises because of concerns that the proposed raises wouldn鈥檛 cover soaring inflation and health insurance costs.
The CNH strike is one of the longest ones over the past couple of years as workers have increasingly demanded better pay and working conditions coming out of the pandemic.聽
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