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• Strikes hits key supplier for GM, Chrysler

  - 2008-02-25

  DETROIT, Michigan AFP — The United Auto Workers launched a strike Tuesday against Detroit-based American Axle and Manufacturing Holding Inc AAM, a key supplier to both General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC. The strike began shortly after midnight after the company and union negotiators reached an impasse over wage...

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• UAW contracts' national impact

  - 2007-12-04

  DETROIT -- At the kickoff to the United Auto Workers negotiations with Detroit automakers last summer, union President Ron Gettelfinger insisted the new contracts would not stray radically from past versions. But labor experts say the four-year contracts with General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler are...

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• Union questions auto execs' pay packages

  - 2007-10-10

  DETROIT -- The United Auto Workers says it knows it needs to help Detroit's automakers cut labor costs to reduce the gap in production expenses with Asian rivals. But as talks continue on new contracts, the union also is questioning why top executives at the automakers are paid what they...

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• 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...

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• Union ratifies agreement with Delphi, GM

  - 2007-06-29

  DETROIT, United States AFP — The United Auto Workers has ratified a new contract with bankrupt auto parts maker Delphi Corp., a former subsidiary of General Motors Corp., the union said Friday. The agreement, which includes dramatic wage cuts and job losses, allows GM to sidestep a crippling strike...

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• Auto Strike Unlikely This Year

  - 2007-04-01

  A top economist who watches the auto industry predicted the United Auto Workers union will not go on strike against any automaker this year. But just a few months before negotiations are set to begin on a national master contract, Scan McAlinden, chief economist for the Center for Automotive Research,...

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• An instructional exercise in cost-raising strategies, and perfect complements production.(Content Articles in Economics)

  - 2007-03-22

  Abstract: The author presents an account of the 1993 contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers UAW and Ford Motor Company to assist students in developing facility with perfect complements production and cost functions and cost-raising strategies. The author seeks an answer to why the UAW...

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• Supplier labor cuts a mixed bag; Some workers reject concessions, others accept.(News)

  - 2007-02-26

  Byline: David Barkholz The prospective owners of distressed auto-supplier plants in Pennsylvania and Michigan are having mixed results in their efforts to obtain labor concessions. About 450 unionized workers at a Lear Corp. interiors plant in Byline: David Barkholz...

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• Union leaders to discuss Delphi wage cut proposal Tuesday

  - 2006-03-27

  DETROIT, United States AFP — In a move aimed at averting a crippling strike, bankrupt auto parts supplier Delphi Corp has presented its main union with a proposal to phased-in wage cuts which are not as deep as originally proposed. United Auto Workers union leaders are due in Detroit...

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• Union Ratifies Pact with American Axle & Manufacturing.

  - 2004-03-09

  By Jamie Butters, Detroit Free Press Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 9--UAW members ratified a four-year contract with American Axle & Manufacturing Inc., after a one-day strike late last month that disrupted General Motors Corp. truck production. About 68...

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