Oct. 10 -- Chrysler LLC's U.S. factory workers went on strike today after the United Auto Workers union failed to reach a new contract agreement with the third-largest U.S.- based automaker. Workers at all but five of Chrysler's UAW-represented plants began walking off their jobs at the 11 a.m. New York time strike deadline, according to a UAW memo. Bargainers negotiated after the strike began and then... Read Full Story
And GM got an even better deal than we thought... By Brendan Moore 10.11.2007 Chrysler and UAW used up all the headlines yesterday, but something else important happened – the UAW workers employed by General Motors fully ratified their new tentative labor agreement. The UAW said 66% of its GM production workers voted in favor of the deal and 64% of the skilled trades voted in favor. The contract covers about 74,000 hourly employees at GM. As we mentioned last month when the tentative... Read Full Story
By Brendan Moore 10.10.2007 The strikes are getting shorter, anyway... 5:31 PM: Chrysler and the UAW have reached a tentative labor agreement after what was approximately a 6-hour strike by UAW workers at Chrysler plants in the U.S. Details of the new 4-year labor agreement were not immediately available, but both UAW and Chrysler sources confirmed that the deal had been agreed to late this afternoon. Ron Gettlefinger, UAW president, called the second strike in less than 30 days against... Read Full Story
No strike expected this time around By Brendan Moore 10.15.2007 Ford and the UAW are next, and last, for the Big 3 labor hoedown, and there may be some different moves coming up in this last pas de deux. Yes, pattern bargaining is the way the UAW likes to go, but there may be some problems with sticking to the same script that GM and Chrysler used in their labor agreement. One, Ford’s financial position is more tenuous than either GM’s or Chrysler’s (they lost $12.6 billion USD last year... Read Full Story
Posted By:Phil LeBeauI watched the latest vote results from rank and file United Auto Workers at Chrysler and thought to myself, "what do these people want?" Through the weekend an estimated 11,000 UAW have rejected the tentative contract the union agreed to with Chrysler. Some 6,000 have voted in favor of it. Read More
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