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• Ford pact may keep plants open

  - 2007-11-06

  DETROIT -- The tentative four-year contract between Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers keeps all U.S. assembly plants open during its life, according to two people familiar with the deal. As part of its restructuring plan, Ford was to close two more car or truck assembly...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Leadership, Strategy, UAW

• No savior.

  - 2005-12-12

  Dennis Kucinich is considered a friend of labor. Why, we're not quite sure. Friends level with friends and tell them what they need to hear, not what they want to hear, as seems his habit. The latest example is the congressman's response to those union workers who...

  Tags: congressman, Ford Motor Co., job, leader, Leadership, Rep., UAW

• UAW to choose new leadership, set bargaining goals at conventions

  - 2002-06-03

  DETROIT AP -- As the United Auto Workers gather today for two conventions, the main event will be the anointing of new leaders who will have some hard, immediate realities to contend with: Automakers are closing plants, losing market share and outsourcing an increasing amount of work.

  Tags: leadership, UAW

• Upstarts Face Long Odds in Detroit-Area UAW Chapter's Elections.

  - 2002-04-27

  By John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 27--In what they admit is a David-versus-Goliath effort, two dissident members of the UAW's biggest manufacturing local will try to unseat veteran Local 600 leaders in elections next week. ...

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., Leadership, Manufacturing, UAW

• UAW Leadership Race Swings to Ford Department Chief.

  - 2001-11-03

  By John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

  Tags: Ford Motor Co., leadership, UAW

• Learning from Saturn. (Book Reviews). (book review)

  - 2001-09-22

  by Saul A. RUBINSTEIN and Thomas A. KOCHAN, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2001, 156 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3873-X. This is a jewel of a book: most informative, insightful and, in several respects, even endearing. This review will attempt to highlight some of its main features:...

  Tags: FINANCE, General Motors Corp., Leadership, partnership, Saturn, team, UAW

• Learning from Saturn

  - 2001-09-22

  by Saul A. RUBINSTEIN and Thomas A. KOCHAN, Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR Press, 2001, 156 pp., ISBN 0-8014-3873-X. This is a jewel of a book: most informative, insightful and, in several respects, even endearing. This review will attempt to highlight some of its main features: the importance of the issues...

  Tags: FINANCE, General Motors Corp., Leadership, partnership, Saturn, team, UAW

• Southfield, Mich.-Based Auto Interior Manufacturer's Workers Authorize Strike.

  - 2001-08-15

  By Cynthia Vinarsky, Vindicator, Youngstown, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 15--LORDSTOWN, Ohio--With a contract deadline still more than two weeks away, members of United Auto Workers at Lear Seating Corp. have authorized their leaders to strike if a new agreement can't...

  Tags: General Motors Corp., Leadership, UAW

• Gore and Clinton's Karmic Journey

  - 2000-06-19

  Flash: Hell has frozen over! How else could the recent dramatic bipartisanship on Caldtol Hill be explained? Does it make you uncomfortable when Big Clinton and Tom DeLay work together? The Weekly World News had the courage and journalistic integrity to tell the American people what no other newspaper,...

  Tags: Bush, Gore, Leadership, president, Rep., Republican, summit, U.S., U.S. Senate, UAW

• American Arabic Chamber embraces community: Ford's Nasser and UAW's

  - 1998-12-29

  Michigan Chronicle 12-29-1998 American Arabic Chamber embraces community: Ford's Nasser and UAW's Yokich honored By Ericka Alexander Not only is the world rapidly changing, it is getting smaller. And as a result, people are embracing each other's differences and working together to...

  Tags: Comerica Inc., FINANCE, Ford Motor Co., Leadership, Manufacturing, UAW