UAW Local 2209, which represents union workers at GM’s Fort Wayne Assembly where full-size pickups are made is holding a strike authorization vote Wednesday. Skip to content. WANE 15.

UAW Local 2209, which represents union workers at GM's Fort Wayne Assembly where full-size pickups are made is holding a strike authorization vote Wednesday. WANE Ft. Wayne.

UAW Local 2209 announced Monday that it has reached an agreement with GM management regarding a dispute over the work duties of both union and management staff at Fort Wayne Assembly.

UAW Local 2209 President Rich LeTourneau, who confirmed the Wednesday vote to The Detroit News, wrote in the update to members dated Friday that he had submitted a request for a strike ...

"They could fall backwards on everything they agreed to," said UAW Local 2209 Shop Chairman Rich LeTourneau. "I've seen that before, when they think the pressure's off" and go back to "bad habits.

UAW Local 2209 Shop Chairman Rich LeTourneau stands next to a 2020 Chevrolet Trail Boss Silverado pickup built on June 2, 2020. It was recently at GM’s Fort Wayne Assembly plant.

Members of UAW Local 2209 at the GM Fort Wayne facility in Indiana have voted to authorize a strike, with a little over 75 percent of those voting in support the measure.

The UAW Local 2209 is seeking approval from to go on strike at the GM Fort Wayne pickup truck assembly plant over disputes around seniority and temp workers.

They aren’t on strike, but they could be called on to walk out if UAW leadership taps Local 2209 to participate in strikes happening now at selected sites.

"It's nothing but empty promises if I sign the letter," Rich LeTourneau, shop chairman of UAW Local 2209, which represents union members at Fort Wayne Assembly, told the Free Press.

Rich LeTourneau, shop chairman of UAW Local 2209, said he’s been negotiating with GM since last December to make the part-time temps at least full-time temps, if not permanent employees.

It appears increasingly likely that GM workers will officially appeal the UAW’s “ratification.” On Thursday, Local 2209 Bargaining Chairman Rich LeTourneau at the GM Fort Wayne Assembly ...