ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (WANE) --- The UAW Local 2209 voted to strike Wednesday, after weeks of having a half dozen management people working union jobs on the line every day. Those jobs should be filled by GM union employees, says bargaining chairman Rich LeTourneau and he has 40 open jobs that need to be filled. But even with the vote to strike, it doesn’t mean GM union workers will be on the picket line before the end of the week.  The vote is just the first step. To strike, Local 2209 will need approval from the national UAW before it can happen. UAW Local 2209 approves strike authorization following vote “I don’t see a resolution to this until they are forced to come to the table and stop using their people to do my work and that may be a couple of weeks,” LeTourneau told WANE 15 Thursday, a day after the union voted 75% to 25% to strike. “Unless,” he added, “under the collective bargaining agreement, the international UAW issues a five-day letter that will force everyone to the table.” The workers voted to strike after a report on GM's website indicated contracts were being violated by assigning floor managers to assembly line positions. “I don’t think they’re (management employees) really happy going on the line and doing my work because they know it’s my work, first and foremost. Second of all, they’re doing what they’re told,” LeTourneau said. The management is “doing repairs, hauling parts, driving trucks. It’s a continuing operation for them. We used to have repairmen. We used to have people haul hot parts. We had people who inspected trucks. We have repairmen out back who do all that work. But they’re trying to get it done while the line’s still running with their people instead of my people," LeTourneau said. “Their job is to manage my people, not to do my people’s work. My people can’t manage them.” LeTourneau insists that this move by management violates the national agreement. He thinks that management views the UAW as “weak” and that Local 2209 “is not going to do anything about it, but we are.” When asked how the workers feel, he said it was obvious by the 75% vote to strike. “They agree with me 100% because they know it’s going to be their job next,” LeTourneau said. He has already started the next steps, LeTourneau said by talking to the UAW in the region and at the national level. And he’s made some phone calls to the Fort Wayne Assembly management “who continue to think what they’re doing is part of the national agreement and it’s not.” “If I didn’t have to get national authorization, I would have struck on Oct. 2,” LeTourneau said. Two other GM plants - Bowling Green (Kentucky) GM that produces Corvettes and Tonawonda Engine in New York are also refusing to accept management on their lines. Both plants refused to “exploit temporary workers,” LeTourneau said. “If you’re not going to hire them, they’re not helping us.” The problem is that part-time temporary workers who work 32 hours a week can be strung along as temps “forever” because there’s no provision to hire them. They have to be temps for nine months in order to get hired, LeTourneau said. At the Fort Wayne Assembly, there were 250 part-time employees working there even though there are 40 full-time jobs open, LeTourneau said. Those temps were let go Oct. 2. In Fort Wayne, there are about 4,500 workers who produce 1,300 pickup trucks every day.