Word: chevrolet
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...plants from California to New Jersey. "Grab a sign and get in line," shouted union organizers at workers as they poured out of the GM factory in Pontiac, Mich. The signs read: U.A.W. ON STRIKE FOR JOB SECURITY and ONE DAY HEADLINES, THE NEXT DAY BREADLINES. At a Chevrolet plant in Van Nuys, Calif., most of the 4,045 U.A.W. members walked off the job, and the facility shut down. The company was forced to cancel two Saturday shifts at its Buick assembly plant in Flint, Mich...
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...
...last week many U.A.W. members were bristling for a showdown. Said Jim Zsigo, 37, a machine operator in the Chevrolet component plant at Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland: "We can't have them taking all the jobs to Mexico, and we can't have all our jobs replaced by robots. I can't really afford a strike, but I've been saving. I'm good for about eight weeks." Rick Herman, 39, a dyemaker in the Parma plant, was psychologically ready to walk out. Said he: "I'm looking forward to a strike...
...salary of $625,000. While the award might have been merited in view of the $3.7 billion GM earned in 1983, it was a dreadful labor relations blunder. Workers, who had been enduring wage freezes for more than two years, were outraged. Robert Sidwell, 45, a machinist at the Chevrolet plant in Parma, still has neither forgotten nor forgiven. Said he last week: "One man doesn't deserve that much. I don't care if he's the Queen of Sheba...
...Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius designed various solid-looking bodies for Adler luxury convertibles. American artists instead used standard models as a kind of canvas or armature. Examples: the aggressive Pegasus by James Croak, featuring a stuffed horse with paper wings crashing through the metal roof of another '63 Chevrolet; The Bicentennial Welfare Cadillac by James Roche, decked out with mirrors and flags; and Ghetto Blaster by Scott Prescott, an Impala converted into a menacing gray tank. French Sculptor Arman has a towering indictment: his Long Term Parking piles 60 cars on top of one another and embeds them...