Word: lordstown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former college football tackle with a booming voice but a gentle nature, Stempel took a conciliatory approach toward downsizing the work force. When a United Auto Workers strike shut down 14 of GM's factories in August and September, Stempel agreed to add 900 jobs at two Lordstown, Ohio, plants where workers had complained about being shorthanded. Earlier, Stempel had signed a U.A.W. contract that let workers draw 95% of their wages for three years after being laid off as a result of technological change...
...between an irresistible force (worker demands for job security) and an immovable object (industry insistence on lower operating costs). General Motors and the United Auto Workers have just been in such a collision. A job action that began among 2,300 workers at a GM body-stamping plant in Lordstown, Ohio, expanded to nine GM assembly plants before the two sides finally reached a tentative settlement. It had idled 42,000 workers over the issue of the company's right to determine which jobs would be eliminated under a sweeping corporate restructuring scheduled to cut 74,000 hourly and salaried...
...union are already at odds because of company plans to close 21 plants. Last week 2,300 GM workers struck a parts plant in Lordstown, Ohio, over job security. The action halted the assembly line for the much touted Saturn, which depends on a steady flow of auto components to meet its Japanese-inspired "just in time" production system...