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Some details in the UAW-FCA agreement



■ $9,000 ratification bonus for full-time workers, $3,500 ratification bonus for temporary workers

■ FCA will create 7,900 jobs with $9 billion in U.S. manufacturing investments through 2023.

■ FCA and the UAW agreed to dissolve their jointly run National Training Center.

■ FCA workers will get 4 percent bonuses this year and in 2021 and 3 percent wage increases in 2020 and 2022.

■ Path for temporary workers to reach full-time status

■ "In-progression" employees, who account for 64 percent of FCA's hourly work force, no longer would have different health care, dental and vision coverage from more senior colleagues. Temps would get prescription drug coverage for the first time.

■ $60,000 retirement package to eligible hourly workers at the Belvidere Assembly Plant in Illinois, the Marysville Axle and Mount Elliott plants in Michigan and the Milwaukee parts distribution center.

■ $9,000 ratification bonus for full-time workers, $3,500 ratification bonus for temporary workers■ FCA will create 7,900 jobs with $9 billion in U.S. manufacturing investments through 2023.■ FCA and the UAW agreed to dissolve their jointly run National Training Center.■ FCA workers will get 4 percent bonuses this year and in 2021 and 3 percent wage increases in 2020 and 2022.■ Path for temporary workers to reach full-time status■ "In-progression" employees, who account for 64 percent of FCA's hourly work force, no longer would have different health care, dental and vision coverage from more senior colleagues. Temps would get prescription drug coverage for the first time.■ $60,000 retirement package to eligible hourly workers at the Belvidere Assembly Plant in Illinois, the Marysville Axle and Mount Elliott plants in Michigan and the Milwaukee parts distribution center.

Some details in the UAW-Ford agreement



■ Caps the number of temporary workers Ford can use at 8% company-wide, and 10% at any individual facility

■ Romeo Engine would close, but the plant's roughly 600 workers would transition to Van Dyke Transmission. Aside from that facility, Ford agreed to a moratorium on plant closings through the life of the contract

■ Workers at Woodhaven Stamping/Hot Metal Forming, one of three plants on a separate pay scale that earned less than other assembly workers, would be brought up to the normal scale and become eligible for top wages. Workers at Rawsonville and Sterling Axle remain on that sub-scale.

■ 3% raises in 2020 and 2022, 4% lump-sum payments in 2019 and 2021

■ Profit-sharing formula unchanged

■ Skilled trades get $1,000 lump-sum payments in 2019 and 2021 to use toward tooling

■ Path for temporary workers to reach full-time status

■ $9,000 ratification bonus for full-time workers, $3,500 ratification bonus for temporary workers

■ $60,000 bonus to an unlimited number of production employees and up to 200 skilled trades workers who elect to retire.

■ Carryover health benefits allowing workers to continue paying 3% of costs; includes new discounts for retail clinics, and telemedicine with a $10 copay.

■ Caps the number of temporary workers Ford can use at 8% company-wide, and 10% at any individual facility■ Romeo Engine would close, but the plant's roughly 600 workers would transition to Van Dyke Transmission. Aside from that facility, Ford agreed to a moratorium on plant closings through the life of the contract■ Workers at Woodhaven Stamping/Hot Metal Forming, one of three plants on a separate pay scale that earned less than other assembly workers, would be brought up to the normal scale and become eligible for top wages. Workers at Rawsonville and Sterling Axle remain on that sub-scale.■ 3% raises in 2020 and 2022, 4% lump-sum payments in 2019 and 2021■ Profit-sharing formula unchanged■ Skilled trades get $1,000 lump-sum payments in 2019 and 2021 to use toward tooling■ Path for temporary workers to reach full-time status■ $9,000 ratification bonus for full-time workers, $3,500 ratification bonus for temporary workers■ $60,000 bonus to an unlimited number of production employees and up to 200 skilled trades workers who elect to retire.■ Carryover health benefits allowing workers to continue paying 3% of costs; includes new discounts for retail clinics, and telemedicine with a $10 copay.