Information for workers at GM Components Holdings plants

(See contract pages 439-443.)
The primary concern for the GM Components Holdings (GMCH) Top Negotiating Team was the four GMHC plants: Delphi Thermal Systems in Lockport, N.Y., Delphi Powertrain in Rochester, N.Y., Delphi Powertrain Systems in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Delphi Electronics and Safety in Kokomo, Ind., to be covered by the terms of the 2011 UAW GM National Agreement.

Th roughout negotiations, your bargaining team stood strong and demanded that what was good for GM was also good for GMCH. The team recognized that in matters of economics, their decisions had to be measured and prudent to ensure reward, while protecting their membership by doing everything possible to aff ord them an opportunity to survive and grow.

Language was negotiated that merges GMCH into the GM unit so that all represented, current GMCH employees shall become subject to the terms of the UAW GM National Agreement, with the following exceptions:

• Production employees are considered Entry Level.
• No Entry-Level hiring limits.
• Production wages frozen as of Sept. 15, 2011.

• Skilled trades wages to transition to those in the current UAW GM National Agreement for similar classifications. Fifty-percent of the difference in the rates will be reduced immediately, with the remaining 50 percent reduced in six months from the effective date of the agreement.
• All GMCH employees will transition to GM Entry-Level benefit plans, including SUB and the profit-sharing plan.
• GMCH employees covered under the benefit guarantee agreement dated Sept. 30, 1999, will continue to be covered under the terms of that agreement.
• The 2007 UAW/GM/Delphi transition severance payment is discontinued.
• GMCH employees hired prior to Oct. 18, 1999, with valid flow back applications may flow to GM as a Traditional employee.
• All product commitments made in the 2007 UAW/GM/Delphi MOU Delphi restructuring, as well as any changes made in the 2009 addendum, are reaffirmed.