Longer to get a 8 speed or 10 speed transmission valve body

Sandy06 · January 7, 2025

Does anyone know if it takes longer to get a Valve Body for a 2020 Silverado, 8 speed transmission or 10 speed? Our truck has the 8 speed transmission. Our service rep insist that the truck won't be there for 3 months. It has been a month so far, with no eta for the part. He said all the other things that they need are there, just waiting on the valve body itself.

Sandy

66ss3964spd · January 7, 2025

I don't think anyone on this forum has the answer to that question, Sandy, surely someone in GM knows but they are not sharing.

You could try reaching out to GM Customer Care and opening a case with them. As well, try the BBB Auto Line. BBB AUTO LINE

newdude · January 8, 2025

6 hours ago, Sandy06 said:

Does anyone know if it takes longer to get a Valve Body for a 2020 Silverado, 8 speed transmission or 10 speed? Our truck has the 8 speed transmission. Our service rep insist that the truck won't be there for 3 months. It has been a month so far, with no eta for the part. He said all the other things that they need are there, just waiting on the valve body itself.

Sandy

It will be there for 3 months minimum. Last two 8 speeds we did were out back for 3-4 months.

MaverickZ71 · January 8, 2025

4 hours ago, newdude said:

It will be there for 3 months minimum. Last two 8 speeds we did were out back for 3-4 months.

That's BS, and hopefully the next Pres can help us prang the automakers to hold them responsible for the trash they've been pushing on us post-covid. The only thing Mary Barra and Co has been worried about is electric vehicles that nobody wants except libtards who think they're solving a non-existent crisis. Mary is going to have another think coming when the next administration wipes out Biden's CAFE and EV executive orders in the first week. God knows if Ukraine needed 10k GM trannies, they'd have shipped last week.

Edited January 8, 2025 by MaverickZ71

newdude · January 8, 2025

1 hour ago, MaverickZ71 said:

That's BS, and hopefully the next Pres can help us prang the automakers to hold them responsible for the trash they've been pushing on us post-covid. The only thing Mary Barra and Co has been worried about is electric vehicles that nobody wants except libtards who think they're solving a non-existent crisis. Mary is going to have enough think coming when the next administration wipes out Biden's CAFE and EV executive orders in the first week. God knows if Ukraine needed 10k GM trannies, they'd have shipped last week.

The issue I'm struggling with is they've got the capacity to make them to build vehicles, why don't they have the capacity to make parts to fix vehicles after they are built? What's wild is they just re-negotiated the union contracts in 2023 and didn't strike, are guaranteed raises for 2024, 2025 and 2026, but then GM has turned around and has been laying off people in various areas. Why not stick those people into plants that need more production? Put more into Romulus and Toledo who do all the GM made transmissions?

But then the problems run deeper than that with people who still don't want to work in general, which then affects the suppliers who make various other components. And even overseas made items its an issue. Chevy Trax parts right now? HA! There's people who've been waiting a year + for collision parts!

Edited January 8, 2025 by newdude

redwngr · January 8, 2025

A refresher on the contract (copied from Detroit News)

Economics of the deal

Compounded, wage increases would total 27% over the four-and-a-half years, up from the $32.22 per hour top wage today. That includes an immediate 11% increase followed by 3% hikes in 2024, '25 and '26. Members would get a 5% increase in 2027.

There also is a $5,000 ratification bonus for all GM employees, including members at GM Subsystems, CCA, Ultium Cells and Components Holdings. All active temporary employees with 90 days service prior to effective date would also receive the $5,000 ratification bonus.

With reinstatement of cost-of-living adjustments that were suspended in 2009, the union estimated the top wage will rise 33% to more than $42 per hour. The starting wage would increase by 67% compounded with estimated COLA to more than $30 an hour.

For production workers, the top rate, not including estimated COLA, would increase to $35.88 from $32.32 upon ratification; to $36.96 next year; to $38.07 in 2025; to $39.21 in 2026; and to $41.17 in 2027. The union estimates that COLA would add $1.78 to base wages by the end of the agreement and a total value of about $8,800.

GM's temporary employees would start at $21 per hour and convert to full-time after nine months. All employees at GM Subsystems, Customer Care and Aftersales and GM Components Holdings will immediately convert to GM's main production rate upon ratification of the deal.

These union members will have an immediate wage boost of between 36% and 89%, according to the union. For example, a current Components Holdings member with three years of service making $18.96 per hour will have hourly wages increase nearly $17 upon ratification to $35.88.

The wage scales at Subsystems, CCA and Components Holdings are identical to the scale for in-progression GM workers with pay per hour starting at $25.12 and going to $35.88 in three years.

For health care coverage, the deal would come with no increases in co-pays, deductibles or out-of-pocket costs for members. Additionally, coverage will now start on the date of hire for all new employees.

The deal would end tiered vacation time and would make employees with 20 years or more of service eligible for 200 hours of vacation. GM has added Juneteenth as a paid holiday.

GM, according to the union, also agreed to provide eligible members up to two weeks of paid time off for a leave of absence for birth, adoption, surrogacy or foster care situations. This would be effective Jan. 1, 2024.

The deal with GM includes similar benefits to what's in the pacts with Ford and Stellantis including:

A three-year progression period to top wages, down from eight years.
Reinstatement of cost-of-living allowances.
All new temporary employees would be converted to in-progression employees after nine months.
All full-time temporary employees with 90 days would be converted to in-progression.
A 10% 401(k) employer contribution.
A $5,000 ratification bonus.
Right to strike over plant closings.
Temporary employees get profit sharing.

The UAW-GM agreement includes $500 annual payments for current retirees and surviving spouses. For current traditional members, it includes a $5 increase to the basic benefit that will bring an increase of $1,800 a year to future pensioners.

And the company plans to offer three special attrition programs starting in January and lasting through the end of the agreement. The program would offer $50,000 lump-sum retirement incentives for eligible traditional employees.

"The company and the union will agree on timing, size and scope of the offering," according to the highlighter.

And members with 401(k)s will see the employer contribution increase to 10%, with no required member contribution. The highlighter also notes a program that will allow members to purchase GM stock through payroll deductions "in the near future."

For its represented salaried GM workers, the union touted that for the first time ever it was able to negotiate general wage increases for the unit. "Not only did we get GWIs, we got them every year, and matched our hourly raises for a total of 25% over the life of the contract," the union said in the salaried highlighter.

And members with 401(k)s will see the employer contribution increase to 10%, with no required member contribution. The highlighter also notes a program that will allow members to purchase GM stock through payroll deductions "in the near future."

For its represented salaried GM workers, the union touted that for the first time ever it was able to negotiate general wage increases for the unit. "Not only did we get GWIs, we got them every year, and matched our hourly raises for a total of 25% over the life of the contract," the union said in the salaried highlighter.

Gains at Ultium Cells

If the deal is ratified, Ultium Cells workers would receive an immediate pay increase of at least $6 to $8 per hour, according to the highlighter. All new hires at Ultium would make a minimum of 75% of the maximum wage rate under the deal.

Upon ratification of the deal, an Ultium worker making $20 per hour currently would see a 34% increase in pay to $26.91. By the end of the deal, that worker would go to $30.88 per hour.

The Detroit News reported Friday that the contract will allow workers displaced by the 2019 closure of Lordstown Assembly Plant the opportunity to transfer to GM's nearby joint-venture battery plant in northeast Ohio.

Should the deal be ratified, there would be a six-month window for former Lordstown employees working at the plant on Nov. 26, 2018, to apply to return and work for the GM and LG Energy Solution Ultium Cells LLC plant next door to the Lordstown facility GM closed after 50 years of production. Former workers who transfer would retain their current wages, benefits and seniority.

Ultium worker Liz Lisk, who currently makes $23 per hour as a crew leader, said in a statement: "It's great we are included in the national agreement, but seems it was truly an afterthought and we aren't valued the same as current employees. Our top wage is $5 less than everyone else. And to top it off, ex-Lordstown employees can transfer to our plant and keep their higher wages. How is that fair to those of us that have been there through the growing pains."

Ultium worker Johnny Pence was happy with the deal since the wage increases are "a far cry from where I started a year ago at $17." Pence currently makes $22 per hour on the night shift at the Ultium plant. Pence noted that others are "upset about not starting at the same wage as everyone else in the master," but in a statement he said he's "happy and shocked and thankful that we are even in the master. This sounded near impossible a few months ago."

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