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Opening the door to the sleek black limousine reveals an elaborate dashboard, blue velour interior, and the proud grins of seniors Marc A. Elvy, Robert E. Brown, and Alan B. Langerman, who recently purchased the 1975 Cadillac Fleetwood...
Neither Elvy, Langerman, nor Brown would reveal the price of the car, saying only that it was a good deal. According to a Cadillac limousine sales representative from Lenza Lime Sales in Waltham, at 1975 Fleetwood would retail for about...
...secure guarantees against further job loss. They were supported in that goal by young union members who did not want to join the thousands who have already left the industry. "I want to have a job eight, ten, 15 years from now," said Larry Sandridge, 29, a polisher at Cadillac's Clark Avenue plant in Detroit for the past eight years. "I'm on the bottom of the totem pole. If we don't get job security now, I'm going to be pushed off." Concurs fellow Assembly Line Worker Jack Stewart...
...officials concede privately that they expect a tough ratification fight. Many senior union members, who are relatively safe from layoffs, are likely to vote against the agreement because it did not get them fatter paychecks. Warned David Lankford, 37, a sweeper with 18 years seniority at the Clark Avenue Cadillac plant: "I want a raise. I'd vote down anything less than getting back our 3% a year." Rallying under the slogan "restore and more in '84," workers like Lankford have maintained that the union should not only recoup concessions made in its 1982 contract with...
Bieber's unprecedented selective strike directive gave the union the upper hand in the negotiations. The plants targeted by the U.A.W. produce some of the company's bestselling models, which account for nearly half of GM sales. The cars include the Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Cadillac Fleetwood and Pontiac Fiero. In addition, walkouts at the 13 plants threatened to cause shortages at other GM factories. Without a settlement of the strike by the end of the month, virtually all of GM's manufacturing facilities might be forced to close...