Word: uaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will come when people look back and see the strike as one of the most foolish things that ever happened," Peoria Mayor Richard Carver said Saturday. The strike against the Peoria-based manufacturer was the UAW's longest against a major company...
...think the vote to accept the three-and-a-half-year contract is a reflection to the fact that they are in fact, down to their last penny and needed to get back to work Jim O Connor president of UAW local 974 in Peoria said Friday. His local is the largest of 10 UAW locals at Caterpillar plants in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa. Ohio Pennsylvania and Tennessee...
Caterpillar said as many as 3000 non union office workers laid off during the strike will also report for work Monday Workers at non UAW plants in Joliet, III., and Milwaukee will be called back to work as they are needed, starting in the next few weeks...
...industry is much sicker than that. It seems doubtful that the same marketing acumen that decided back in the '70s that big cars were here to stay will find intelligent ways to spend new investment money. Labor costs, moreover, are likely to remain cripplingly high. The United Auto Workers (UAW) should not have to take all of the blame for this, though: layer after layer of management has encrusted the companies, turning them into bureaucracies to rival the government in size and ineptitude. Without the looming threat of economic oblivion, those who must sacrifice to improve efficiency will have...
...SHORT-SIGHTED greed-motivated demands for protectionism must be added another ugly element: xenophobia. A sign in front of a UAW headquarters reads "U.S. and Canadian vehicles only. Please park imports elsewhere." For some reason, Canadian cars (which we import in large numbers) don't count as imports, but the Japanese cars do. Mondale reflects this attitude when he asks, "What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers and spend a lifetime serving McDonald's hamburgers...