2025 Bargaining Updates

Bargaining Update: After 12 Sessions, It's Time for a Practice Picket

UAW Local 379
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After 12 bargaining sessions with Cummins, we continue to push for our top priorities to get addressed—increased wages, sick time, job security, increased profit sharing, more vacation and holidays, and secure 401k and pensions.

Although tentative agreements have been made on some non-economic issues, several economic and non-economic issues remain on the table. Cummins has made it very clear that they are interested in having temporary (contract) workers to do our work. They are trying to weaken our union power by changing or eliminating job security contract language.

Your bargaining team is pushing back against Cummins' slow progression. We’re far apart on issues that impact our future, while there are only four more bargaining sessions remain before contract expiration on September 27. Cummins must take us seriously and show us they are willing to meet our top priorities. We know Cummins is financially capable of fulfilling our demands!

Because our contract expires on September 27, we are holding a strike authorization vote on Saturday, September 20, so we can show our solidarity and our willingness to do what it takes to claim our well-deserved improvements to our contract! We have the power to move the needle—we're the ones who make Cummins billions in profit!

See the below chart for details on some remaining issues at the bargaining table: 

Top Priorities

UAW

Cummins

WAGES

  • An across-the-board flat rate increase of $3.50 upon ratification and a total 24.5% wage increase for years 2026, 2027, and 2028.  
  • Quarterly cost-of-living allowance (COLA) to help keep up with economic changes
  • An across-the-board increase of 7.5% for the life of a 3-year contract (years 2025, 2026, and 2027).
  • No response to COLA

Sick Time

  • Annual sick days to be used for personal or family illness or the illness or can be used for health and wellness appointments 
  • No response to our sick day proposal 

 

 

Job Security

  • Rejecting Cummins’s proposal on our ownership of work.
  • Increase to shoe allowance
  • Secure hours of overtime for work that is outsourced to supplement production
  • Standing strong on protecting current recall rights
  • Standing strong current Temporary Transfer language
  • Rejected Cummins’s proposal on 12-hour rotating shifts
  • Rejected Cummins’s proposal on bidding language

 

 

  • Cummins proposed having non-bargaining unit employees do our work. They believe there is no ownership of work.
  • No shoe allowance increase offered
  • No to hours of overtime work for outsourced work
  • Cummins’s proposed for no recall rights if the most recent performance review is below expectations.
  • Proposed eliminating seniority language for temporary transfer work and wants the ability to hire Contractors for temporary transfer work
  • Proposed 12-hour rotating shifts
  • Proposed changes to bidding language

Profit Sharing

  • Added language to increase profit sharing
  • No response to profit sharing proposal

Vacation and Holidays

  • Add Juneteenth as a Holiday
  • Improvements to EV
  • No response to our Juneteenth proposal
  • No response to EV proposal

401K and Pension

  • Securing our 401k and Pension by adding it to our CBA
  • No response to our proposal in adding 401k and pension language to our CBA

We want to let Cummins know that we're serious about winning our demands. Show up in front of the Cummins plant during your break/lunch or before your shift on Thursday, September 25, anytime between 11:30AM and 2:30PM for our practice picket. Let’s stand together for a strong contract and show our unity!