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...repeal local-content laws that force many companies that want to sell there to manufacture there? Contrariwise, whether or not many American factory owners even think of moving to Mexico, will many try to use the threat of doing so as a means of holding down American wages? Owen Bieber, president of the United Auto Workers, suggests this will happen so often if NAFTA passes that the Administration will have to set up an 800 number for unionists to call with their complaints...
...fill the $35,000 vacancies. Some U.A.W. leaders feared that Caterpillar's success may have provided a tactical lesson to auto-industry executives who will enter their own labor negotiations next year. But Caterpillar's real trump card may have been the recession itself. U.A.W. president Owen Bieber bravely vowed that "the fight isn't over." If and when it resumes, Caterpillar workers would be better advised to find a stronger moment in a sounder economy...
Chrysler Corp.'s bland announcement last week that it was dropping five of its 18 directors in order to "improve efficiency and effectiveness as well as reduce cost" didn't fool industry observers. The unusual pedigree of one of those directors -- Owen Bieber, president of the United Auto Workers union -- signaled other, less technocratic motives. Most bets are that the willful U.A.W. boss, a board member since 1984, was dropped because of his frequent opposition to management, led by its equally willful chairman, Lee Iacocca. "There were a lot of 17-to-1 votes," Bieber said last week...
There was also more than a little friction. Bieber had routinely voted against raises for top executives. In 1989 Chrysler management enraged the union boss by concealing from him plans to close a Detroit plant...
...Bieber's removal from the board, effective in May, marks the end of an experiment in union-management cooperation, which began with the appointment of the U.A.W.'s then president, Douglas Fraser, during Chrysler's dark days of 1980. Chrysler's board shuffle also sparked talk that the troubled company was streamlining itself for a merger with a foreign car company. Possible suitors: Honda, Fiat and Mitsubishi. Whatever Iacocca decides to do, he will have one less dissenting vote to worry about...