Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More skeptical, Detroit's automakers at first showed little interest in the Moodymobile. Chrysler President Lee Iacocca last week announced that he would like to meet Ralph Moody, while Ford Motor executives plan to hold talks with Shetley about supplying cars for further conversion experiments. General Motors sent the director of its new devices section to study...
...response is that the oil companies are trying to do a number on us." Even a high-ranking General Motors executive in Detroit remarks: "The whole thing smells funny...
When they sit down to bargain with the car and truck manufacturers this summer, the United Auto Workers intend to drive right over President Carter's wage guidelines. This was made clear by the 3,500 delegates who crammed Detroit's Cobo Hall last week for a special convention to sort out contract demands. Douglas Fraser, the U.A.W.'s blunt president, vowed to ignore the guides when negotiations begin on the new contract (the current one expires Sept. 14). Thundered Fraser: "The Teamsters bent the hell out of the guidelines. I don't believe the 7% is a reality...
Union officers flinch at the mere mention of a strike. Woody Ferguson, president of Detroit Local 174, which has 17,000 members, notes that the high cost of living would almost prevent a long walkout. Said he: "We can no longer strike over 50 for weeks on end." But if there is a strike, which company would be the target? Union representatives believe that Chrysler is too weak financially to weather a major stoppage. Ford was the target of the last strike, which lasted 28 days in 1976. So it might be General Motors' turn to take the heat...
...struggle is being fought on many levels. Politically, the movement's victories are now barely balancing its defeats. Thirty-nine cities, towns and counties, including Detroit, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis, have enacted ordinances forbidding discrimination against homosexuals in jobs and housing, but only five of those communities have been added to the list in the past two years. The city council in supposedly blase and sophisticated New York City defeated such an ordinance in 1978. Last week the Connecticut house of representatives voted down a gay rights bill...