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• United Auto Workers reach tentative deal with American Axle

  - 2008-05-17

  DETROIT, Michigan AFP — The United Auto Workers said Saturday it had reached a tentative agreement with a key auto parts supplier to end a long and crippling strike that forced General Motors to close six assembly plants. "We do have a tentative agreement" with American Axle and Manufacturing...

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• Volvo Trucks North America and UAW reach agreement

  - 2008-04-01

  Volvo Trucks North America announced that employees represented by the United Auto Workers have ratified a new three-year agreement covering about 2,600 members of UAW Local #2069 at the New River Valley, Va., plant.

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• Volvo Trucks North America UAW contract expires without new agreement

  - 2008-03-01

  Volvo Trucks North America said it was not able to reach an agreement with the United Auto Workers on terms of a new contract that would cover approximately 2,600 UAW members at the New River Valley, Va., truck assembly plant. The International UAW and its affiliated Local 2069 began a...

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• International Truck and Engine Corporation and UAW Reach Tentative Agreement on New Three-Year Labor Contracts

  - 2007-12-12

  WARRENVILLE, Ill. -- International Truck and Engine Corporation and the leadership of the United Auto Workers union have reached a tentative agreement on new three-year labor contracts, the company announced today.

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• Fitch: Chrysler LLC Ratings Unaffected by UAW Agreement; IDR at 'B+', Outlook Stable

  - 2007-11-07

  CHICAGO -- Chrysler LLC's Chrysler (Issuer Default Rating IDR 'B+'; Outlook Stable by Fitch) ratings are unaffected by the recent ratification of a new labor agreement with the United Auto Workers UAW. The rating of 'BB+/RR1' on the $7.5 billion first-lien senior secured term loan, as well as the $2...

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• UAW pushes local support for tentative Ford contract

  - 2007-11-05

  DETROIT -- The United Auto Workers union will spend this week selling its new contract with Ford Motor to local union leaders and members, hoping to avoid the uprising of discontent it encountered recently when trying to persuade Chrysler members to vote for a new contract. ...

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• Workers reach tentative agreement with Ford

  - 2007-11-03

  DETROIT, United States AFP — The United Auto Workers Union said Saturday it had reached a tentative four-year contract with Ford Motor Saturday, avoiding a potentially crippling strike that has affected other top US automakers. The union said the deal was reached after hours of hard bargaining at 3:20...

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• UAW-Ford Reach Tentative Agreement on New National Labor Agreement

  - 2007-11-03

  To: AUTO EDITORSContact: Marcey Evans, +1-313-322-9211, mevans13@ford.com DEARBORN, Mich., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The United Auto Workers union UAW and Ford have reached a tentative agreement on a four-year national labor contract covering approximately 54,000 represented employees in the United States. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank UAW...

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• UAW members narrowly pass contract with Chrysler

  - 2007-10-28

  DETROIT -- Despite significant dissent among some of its workers, United Auto Workers members narrowly passed a four-year contract agreement with Chrysler LLC on Saturday, leaving Ford Motor Co. as the last automaker to negotiate with in this year's round of contract talks. Talks with Ford were proceeding...

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• Will GM's health-care agreement with UAW retirees accelerate a

  - 2007-10-22

  WASHINGTON -- Its years as the nation's largest employer in the rearview mirror, General Motors may still be setting the trend for corporate-worker relations in shedding its obligation for the health care of 340,000 retirees. GM says its historic deal with the United Auto Workers as part of...

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