Word: bieber
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...make only a ripple in the pool of 250,000 blue-collar employees who are on indefinite layoff, meaning they have no dates to return to work. But GM's is possibly the largest recall of auto workers since the mid-'70s. Union officials were encouraged. Owen Bieber, who will succeed Douglas Fraser as head of the United Auto Workers in May, said he hoped GM's announcement was "just the beginning of the industry's long-awaited return to health...
Last Friday in Dearborn, Mich., the U.A.W's 26-member international executive board and 350-member steering committee picked a softspoken, deliberate man as Fraser's replacement. He is Union Vice President Owen Bieber, 52, director of the U.A.W's General Motors department. Bieber's nomination is subject only to ratification at the U.A.W's convention in May, which is certain. Lobbying among union officers for the nomination began in earnest in September among Bieber, Secretary-Treasurer Raymond Majerus, 58, and Donald Ephlin, 57, also a vice president and the head of the union...
...Bieber negotiated this year's GM contract, which was coolly received by the union and barely squeaked through the ratification process. The son of a U.A.W. member, Bieber has been active in union politics since he dropped out of Grand Rapids Catholic Central High School in the mid-'40s. He will be the first U.A.W. president who was not a member of Walter P. Reuther's rough-and-tumble coterie that forged and consolidated the union back in the 1930s...
...Bieber, a hulking man (6 ft. 5 in., 247 lbs.), describes himself as "militant when the occasion calls for it." But like Fraser, he recognizes the necessity for making U.S. auto companies competitive with Japan. Neither the companies nor the union are the growth businesses they once were. The U.A.W's membership now stands at 1.2 million, down from its peak of 1.5 million...