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• Lessons in co-management - Learning from Saturn: Possibilities for Corporate Governance and Employee Relations - Book Review

  - 2002-08-01

  Learning from Saturn: Possibilities for Corporate Governance and Employee Relations. By Saul A. Rubinstein and Thomas A. Kochan. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 2001. 156 pp. $25. In the early 1950s, United Auto Workers revered president Walter Reuther suggested to the big three domestic auto manufacturers that the union...

  Tags: car, FINANCE, General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, partnership, president, Saturn, 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

• GM: Maryland class wins Saturn and UAW Read Across Am America reading contest.

  - 1999-11-10

  M2 PRESSWIRE-10 November 1999-GM: Maryland class wins Saturn and UAW Read Across America reading contest C1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:091199 Lutherville, Md. -- The Saturn UAW Union Partnership Team and Maryland State Teachers Association MSTA have concluded a statewide reading contest...

  Tags: America, General Motors Corp., INTERNET, Maryland, Saturn, UAW

• Business World

  - 1998-12-21

  We're OK, you're not NEW YORK AP -- The leaders of 448 of the country's fastest- growing companies are generally uncertain about the economic outlook for 1999, but they're optimistic about the chances for growth for their own firms. That's what the accounting and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers found...

  Tags: Alcoa Inc., Associated Press, Bloomberg L.P., General Motors Corp., incentive, MARKETING, PacifiCare Health Systems Inc., Saturn, UAW, video

• Workers pushing settlement before walkout at Saturn

  - 1998-08-26

  DETROIT AP -- A strike at the Saturn car plant in Tennessee is still possible, but United Auto Workers leaders said Tuesday they will push for a settlement in the next few weeks before considering a walkout. UAW President Stephen P. Yokich, meanwhile, said he had seen no...

  Tags: General Motors Corp., Manufacturing, Saturn, settlement, strike, UAW

• Saturn's Unique Relationship with Workers Becomes Strained.

  - 1998-07-26

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 26--SPRING HILL, Tenn.--A marriage on the rocks. The partnership between General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers union -- once hailed as a unique, cooperative match between two historic adversaries -- is in trouble. Last week, in a move...

  Tags: car, General Motors Corp., SALES, Saturn, strike, UAW, worker

• Car town. (auto industry in Tennessee) (includes related article)(Cover Story)

  - 1998-03-01

  Tennessee is the third largest producer of automobiles in the US. The Nissan plant in Smyrna, TN, is the most efficient in the nation. The Saturn plant in Spring Hill, TN, operates with a philosophy of teamwork on the factory floor and collaboration between union and management. Auto parts suppliers...

  Tags: car, General Motors Corp., Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Saturn, Smyrna, Tennessee, UAW, worker

• Saturn's Union Employees to Vote on Work Groups.

  - 1998-02-16

  By Gina Fann, Nashville Banner, Tenn. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 16--Struggling through a sales slump that's cut both overtime and production shifts, Saturn Corp. employees represented by the United Auto Workers are deciding today whether to vote on scrapping...

  Tags: General Motors Corp., overtime, Saturn, team, UAW, worker

• Delaware Plant Proposal Shows Boost in U.S. Quality. (Originated from Detroit Free Press)

  - 1994-06-29

  Jun. 30--The UAW and General Motors are engaged in high-level talks on whether to retool an otherwise-doomed Delaware assembly plant to build minicars for sale in the United States, Europe and South America. The discussions are so serious that two weeks ago, UAW Vice President Stephen...

  Tags: car, General Motors Corp., Saturn, U.S., UAW