Word: uaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...general, last week's strike was expensive for the UAW. The shutdown reportedly cost the UAW about $5 million a day in strike benefits alone. The UAW gives each striking employee $30 to $40 a week, based on the striker's number of dependents...
...UAW decision to strike against Chrysler when contracts with all three manufacturers came up for renewal this year was no coincedence. In a record-breaking year of Chrysler sales, the corporation's employees had conducted several wildcat strikes to protest working conditions. The cited poor ventilation, oily floors, excessive heat and dangerously faulty equipment...
...workers were essentially aiming for improved working conditions and fringe benefits. The financial side of the coin was secondary. UAW officials hailed the new contract, tentatively initiated with Chrysler on September 17, as the most far-reaching ever negotiated by the union. But although the union's rank-and-file members ratified the settlement this weekend and returned to their stations on the assembly lines Monday, not all is peaches and cream...
...hours a day six days a week; they cannot be forced to work Sunday; and they will be entitled to every third Saturday off if they tell their supervisor of their intentions on the previous Monday. So the issue of truly voluntary overtime remains a big one within the UAW ranks...
Voluntary overtime, although not a new idea in the auto industry, was the stickiest issue of the UAW-Chrysler negotiations. In response to the UAW's high-priority demand that all overtime be voluntary, Chrysler argued that non-compulsory overtime would create administrative and began headaches and be costly in terms of checks, lost production...