Local UAW leadership to travel to Detroit Thursday as union and GM reach tentative agreement to end strike

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – General Motors and the UAW have reached a tentative agreement to end a month-long strike involving about 49,000 workers nationwide including about 900 employees at the Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green.

Jason Watson, GM bargaining chair for Bowling Green’s UAW Local 2164 and local president Jack Bowers are traveling to Detroit Thursday to learn more about the details when the UAW-GM National Council meets Thursday morning in Michigan.

“We just reached a tentative agreement with GM a short time ago, today, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019,” read a Twitter statement from Terry Dittes, vice president and director of the UAW General Motors Department. “We will go over the details when the Council meets tomorrow morning in Detroit.”

“In the meantime, continue the picket lines until after the UAW-GM National Council concludes business tomorrow, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, and then you will receive further instructions.”

Corvette employees continue to strike near the plant here.

Striking GM employees in Bowling Green are hopeful that their union and GM management reached a fair and equitable agreement.