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...addition to providing workers with regular paychecks, the plan would ease union fears of "out-sourcing," the growing auto company practice of buying parts from cheaper, nonunion plants in the U.S. and abroad. The U.A.W. estimated that 100,000 jobs may have been lost because of auto-industry decisions to buy car parts abroad...
...there were several unresolved issues. GM and the union could not agree on job guarantees for production workers or on how to limit the shift of auto-parts production to cheaper, nonunion manufacturers. There was also disagreement on how to match benefit cuts of blue-collar workers with those of white-collar employees...
...situation this year was entirely different. The truckers union faced a weakened industry in which unionized companies have been losing business to nonunion competitors. More than 100,000 Teamsters have lost their jobs because of layoffs and business failures. Before the talks began, Teamsters President Roy Williams vowed that he would be "reasonable" in bargaining for the new contract. The union started negotiations on Dec. 1 and talks concluded two weeks ago, well in advance of the March 31 expiration of the existing contract...
...year. The auto and rubber workers and the teamsters are all bargaining for new contracts. Although such groups represent only a small fraction of the total American labor force, they traditionally have set the wage pattern for the rest of unionized employees and even influenced wage settlements for many nonunion workers...
...union objectives this year will be to win more jobs for members by getting preferential hiring rights at nonunion tire plants in the South. Says Union President Milan Stone: "We're concerned with employment for our people...