Strike averted as United Auto Workers reaches tentative agreement with Fiat Chrysler

Workers leave a Chrysler Fiat plant in Michigan.
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At midnight Thursday, the United Auto Workers union announced it struck a tentative labor agreement with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles late Wednesday, averting a strike.

Details of the agreement have not yet been released, and local union leaders will vote on the deal during a meeting Friday in Detroit. The union represents 40,000 Fiat Chrysler Automobiles workers at 23 plants across the United States. Last week, UAW workers rejected a tentative agreement that they said did not do enough to restore benefits for workers lost in previous contracts, The Associated Press reports.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.