Word: uaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...RARE DISPLAY of rank and file truculence, members of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) this week overwhelmingly rejected a contract negotiated for them by their leaders and the federally subsidized Chrysler Corporation. Chrysler workers had a simple reason for their resounding "no" vote: After working three years under a 1979 "bailout" contract-- which saved the company over $1 billion in wage reductions--the 50,000 men and women still employed by the shrunken auto maker feel entitled to more money...
...consumer. But the contract that the union brought back to the rank and file was distasteful to 48% of our members. It left a bad taste in our mouth." Bernie Brown, the plant personnel director, agrees. Says he: "When you have had an adversary relationship with the UAW for 45 years, it's very difficult to change...
...UAW President Douglas Fraser, 65, is the union leader who has been most intimately involved in labor and management's struggle with the issue of conflict or cooperation. Since May 1980, he has been a member of Chrysler's board of directors, and it was Fraser who urged his members to accept wage concessions in 1979 so that Chrysler could qualify for $1.5 billion in Government loan guarantees. He has also backed reductions in pay increases to help Ford and General Motors. But at the same time Fraser must figure out how to keep his membership satisfied...
Such a statement is undoubtedly true for the UAW. Its membership has tumbled from 1.5 million in 1979 to 1.2 million today. Over 250,000 of those workers are laid off, and most have dim hope of regaining their positions. At the same time, the influx of new members has virtually dried up because any auto-company hiring is now almost exclusively from the ranks of the jobless...
Immediately after the election District 65 of the UAW field charges with the NLRB that Harvard unfairly influenced workers...