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...three-year contract with General Motors, word leaked out that at least 22 of the union's 149 locals had turned down the agreement. Many workers were dissatisfied with the proposed wage hike and lump-sum payments that would average 2.25% annually. But after U.A.W. President Owen Bieber warned that rejection would mean an immediate nationwide strike the vote totals began to shift in favor of the contract. At week's end union officials predicted approval by a 55% to 60% majority
...Bieber was preceded as a Chrysler director by Douglas Fraser, who retired from the U.A.W. presidency last May. Fraser joined the board when Chrysler needed financial help from the union and soon hit it off with Chairman Lee Iacocca. Iacocca wanted Fraser to stay on as a director after his term ran out; Fraser contended that the seat belonged to the U.A.W., not to him. In contrast, Bieber and Iacocca's relationship was strained when contract negotiations with Chrysler broke down last summer. The two have since warmed a bit toward each other, but it might not last. Bieber...
Chrysler last week named Owen Bieber, president of the United Auto Workers, to its board of directors. That made Bieber the second auto-union chief to serve as a Chrysler director and one of the few labor representatives anywhere to sit on the board of a major U.S. corporation...
After the talks ended, Bieber claimed to have negotiated "an unprecedented job-security program with far-reaching new protection for our members against job loss." He said it would safeguard them against job loss due to plant closings, new technology and "outsourcing"-the industry's code name for producing cars and parts abroad. He also said he had won commitments from GM to "maintain production and create new job opportunities" in the U.S. The program offered by GM reportedly consists of a $1 billion "job security pool" from which workers with as little as one year's seniority...
Both GM and the union were outwardly optimistic last week that the contract will be approved by workers. Said Warren: "We are confident that this agreement, reached after tough but professional negotiations, will be ratified quickly." Concurred Bieber: "I'm confident that once the leadership and rank and file have a chance to look at it, they will accept...