Word: contract
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nothing like it had ever happened in the long history of auto negotiations. The contract between Ford and the United Auto Workers expired last Monday at midnight, and the company's 104,000 union members would 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...
...proposed three-year contract contains job-security provisions that will give workers unprecedented protection against layoffs. The pact, which is expected to be handily ratified by the U.A.W. rank and file, also includes improved pension and health benefits, along with a first-year 3% wage hike. (The base pay of the average Ford union worker is now $13.42 an hour.) In the second and third years of the contract, the employees would receive 3% bonus payments...
...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...
While No. 3 Chrysler does not face negotiations with its U.S. workers until next year, the company got a scare last week when its contract with the Canadian Auto Workers union ran out. Some 10,000 employees in Chrysler's four plants in Ontario went on strike, stopping production of such hot-selling models as the Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager vans. The impact rippled across the border, idling 1,400 workers at Chrysler's plant in Belvidere, Ill., where most production was shut down for lack of Canadian-made parts, and 500 additional employees at a stamping plant operated...
...final scene is Patricia's, a diner a couple of blocks from campus. Next door is the Holiday Inn, in front of which disgruntled workers are picketing, trying to win a contract. In the busy diner, students grab a quick brunch before heading for the Yale-Brown football game, and New Haven residents sit at the counter warming up with a cup of coffee...