Word: bieber
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordinarily have gone out on strike. But the clock was stopped, and the two sides, tantalizingly close to an agreement, went on talking. Finally, after a 28-hour marathon bargaining session that ended about 60 hours beyond the original strike deadline, settlement came on Thursday morning. U.A.W. President Owen Bieber was not around for the handshakes; the strain of the negotiations had sent him to a Detroit hospital on Tuesday night with stomach pains. But he kept in touch with the talks by phone, and his deputy, U.A.W. Vice President Stephen Yokich, proclaimed the union's view of the outcome...
...struggling GM probably cannot. Bieber, who was released from the hospital late in the week, will demand from GM a deal similar to the Ford package in negotiations that begin this week. GM's contract with the U.A.W. also expired last week, but the union shrewdly decided to settle first with cash-rich Ford...
...Ford is supposed to be a hotbed of good ideas," said Owen Bieber, president of the United Auto Workers. "We're going to give them the opportunity to demonstrate that the same is true in the labor-relations arena." Bieber's 1.1 < million-member union thereupon served notice last week, well before its labor contract expires on Sept. 14, that the No. 2 U.S. automaker would be the U.A.W.'s priority target in seeking a new three-year pact. The designation was meant to put increased bargaining pressure on the target company, a pattern that in years past meant...
...billion U.S. auto market (currently about 70%) and the growing use of foreign suppliers to cut costs. The companies are trying to save money by trimming their domestic labor force, and the U.A.W. has lost more than 400,000 members since 1979. The union's aim, Bieber says, is to make "stable domestic employment a part of how these companies do business...
...Bieber may have little trouble getting Ford and its 104,000 U.A.W. employees to reach an accord. The company passed much bigger rival GM in profits last year ($3.3 billion vs. $2.9 billion) largely on the basis of cutbacks begun in 1980 that cost some 50,000 workers their jobs. With that painful exercise over, Ford's profits are expected to be just as good or better this year. Meantime, the company's domestic-market share climbed from 18.2% last year to 20.1% in July, and some Ford plants are humming along at more than 100% of normal capacity. Facing...