by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 17, 2019
The United Workers GM National Council will decide today to pull the pickets from around the General Motors Co. plants across the United States in the wake of a tentative agreement between negotiators for the company and the union or leave them in place until an...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 16, 2019
After a four-week long strike and losses approaching $2 billion, General Motors and the United Auto Workers have hammered out a tentative agreement. The UAW GM National Negotiators and elected to recommend the UAW GM National Council accept the Proposed Tentative...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 16, 2019
Negotiations between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Co. to end a strike that has cost the company an estimated $2 billion have picked up in intensity in the face of an informal deadline set by the union, which has scheduled a meeting of the UAW’s GM...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 15, 2019
The United Auto Workers has summoned its General Motors Council leaders from around the country to Detroit for special meeting this week for an update on the costly monthlong strike against GM. The official agenda for the meeting issued by the union calls for an a...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 14, 2019
With the strike by more than 48,000 union members set to enter its fifth full week, the United Auto Workers and General Motors made little headway in talks that center on the union’s new contract. The UAW also moved to underscore its determination by raising the...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 12, 2019
General Motors Co. is reviewing a counteroffer from the United Auto Workers, which the union said could lead to a tentative settlement in the monthlong strike by 48,000 UAW members. “We’re reviewing the proposal,” said GM spokesman David Barnas. “We won’t have an...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 11, 2019
Talks between the United Auto Workers and General Motors foundered late Thursday despite a meeting earlier in the week between GM Chairman Mary Barra and senior negotiators from the company and the union. Barra had asked for the meeting, which is held in a conference...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 10, 2019
With General Motors’ investment grade credit rating in danger and analysts warning GM dealers could face product shortages during the critical Christmas selling season, talks aimed at ending the strike by 48,000 GM employees belonging to the United Auto Workers...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 9, 2019
One few surviving links to the Walter Reuther era is calling for United Auto Workers President Gary Jones to step down from the union’s top job. “We must support and hope the membership wins at GM and must also work to clean out the corruption in Solidarity...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 9, 2019
Negotiations between the United Auto Workers and General Motors remain stuck in neutral as the talks deadlocked due to the union demands for more investment and guarantees against plant closings, which the union has defined as job security. “All of us here, in this...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 8, 2019
With the battle with the United Auto Workers also becoming a fight for shareholder support, a coalition of major shareholders are demanding that General Motor Co. join other automakers, including Ford Motor Co., and sign an agreement to honor California’s clean...
by Joseph Szczesny | Oct 8, 2019
The United Auto Workers strike has taken another bite out of General Motors production as the company was forced to shut down part of its engine plant in Ramos Arizpe due to a shortage of parts made in factories hit by the walkout. GM spokesman Dan Flores said...
