The 1,300 hourly workers at the plant, located about an hour north of Nashville, have been without a local union contract for two years.
But they recently rejected the plant management’s latest offer because of outstanding demands that local union leaders say management won’t settle and the union won’t withdraw.
“The arrogance really is frustrating because the demands that we haven’t satisfactorily settled are not egregious in nature, especially during economic good times,” said Jason Watson, shop chairman of UAW Local 2164, which represents the Bowling Green Assembly hourly workforce. “We’re not in a recession.”
GM and local UAW at odds over contract at plant that makes the Corvette
