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• Detroit 3 to UAW: The Bosses Feel Your Pain. Honest.

  BNET - 2008-07-23

  Chrysler was widely reported today to be cutting 1,000 white-collar jobs, on top of previously announced production cuts, layoffs and job cuts. The way it often works in Detroit is that when blue-collar jobs are cut, white-collar job cuts aren't far behind. The car companies are sensitive to any suggestion...

  Tags: Job, Compensation, UAW, Chrysler LLC, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jim Henry

• UAW Members for Ron Paul: "Save Your Jobs; Vote Ron Paul!"

  - 2008-01-14

  DETROIT -- Wayne County and UAW member supporters of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will rally against the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA Monday afternoon at the Ford Michigan truck plant

  Tags: job, UAW

• Management? Labor? Globalization shapes classic confrontation

  - 2007-10-08

  The United Auto Workers UAW strike against General Motors GM in late September was the first nationwide strike by the union in more than 30 years, and it only lasted a couple of days. In the end, the strike may have actually helped GM by reducing inventory and the company's...

  Tags: agreement, General Motors Corp., globalization, job, manufacturer, Manufacturing, Mississippi, strike, UAW, worker

• Cutting corporate taxes is bad news for U.S. businesses

  - 2007-10-02

  If USA TODAY reader Dorothy Coleman truly believes that cutting corporate tax rates and adding a permanent research and development tax credit "would lead to greater economic growth, higher wages for workers, an increase in productivity levels, more business investment and lower inflation," then she truly has been guzzling the...

  Tags: FINANCE, job, NFL, Taxes, UAW, USA Today, worker

• The GM deal gives the UAW a much needed chance to remake itself.(JOBS & WORKERS)

  - 2007-09-28

  The GM deal gives the UAW a much needed chance to remake itself, reversing decades of declining membership and influence. And it affects more than just General Motors and the United Auto Workers. The contract serves as a model for negotiations with F The GM deal...

  Tags: General Motors Corp., job, UAW

• Job security a key sticking point in GM-UAW talks

  - 2007-09-26

  As General Motors remained idled by a strike for the second day Tuesday, United Auto Workers leader Ron Gettelfinger again pointed to job security as a major stumbling block in negotiations on a new contract. Part of that issue catches the world's biggest automaker and its...

  Tags: General Motors Corp., job, security, UAW, worker

• Striking GM workers push job security

  - 2007-09-25

  DETROIT -- In the end, the first nationwide strike against General Motors Corp. in 37 years came because the United Auto Workers want something that GM will find difficult to promise: Job security. UAW officials said the 73,000 UAW members who work at about 80 U.S. facilities for...

  Tags: General Motors Corp., job, Manufacturing, strike, UAW, worker

• An interview with economist Susan Helper

  - 2007-09-01

  Starting on the Shop FloorU.S. Auto Workers Face an Industry in TurmoilDETROIT, 1970. The United Auto Workers has over 1.6 million members, representing around 95% of all U.S. auto workers. Typical of the industry, blue-collar workers at General Motors have seen their wages rise by more than 70% over the...

  Tags: Benefits, car, job, salary, Toyota Motor Corp., U.S., UAW, worker

• US autoworkers greet job cuts with resignation

  - 2007-02-14

  DETROIT AFP — DaimlerChrysler's plan to cut 13,000 jobs has been greeted with shrugs of resignation by autoworkers who found the news far too familiar. Detroit has been devastated by waves of layoffs as the Big Three US automakers -- Ford, General Motors and Chrysler -- steadily shed plants...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Chrysler LLC, Daimler AG, Detroit, Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., job, UAW, worker

• UAW Changes Strategy as It Aims to Save Jobs After Ford Layoffs

  - 2006-10-09

  CLEVELAND - Shuttered plants. Thousands of good-paying jobs lost. Retiree benefits at risk. Global competition. An uncertain future.CLEVELAND - Shuttered plants. Thousands of good-paying jobs lost. Retiree benefits at risk. Global competition. An uncertain future.

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Global Competition, job, layoff, strategy, UAW