Word: uaw
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...university remained staunch in its refusal to bargain with the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC)—which is affiliated with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110—even after the union voted last week to set Nov. 9 as the strike deadline...
...only such union at a private university in the country—voted earlier this week to strike on Nov. 9 if the administration continues its refusal to participate in contract negotiations.The Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC)—which is affiliated with United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2110—has been without a contract since Aug. 31, when its original four-year agreement with NYU expired.Eighty-five percent of the members of GSOC voted in favor of setting the Nov. 9 strike deadline, according to committee member and NYU teaching assistant Susan Valentine. The strikes comes after...
...survive an alien attack, other than being able to unload shipyard cargo very fast and having the skills of an excellent auto mechanic. (There’s a V-8 engine sitting near his kitchen table.) I’m guessing his character was product placement by the UAW...
...next round of national labor negotiations this summer, the Big Three are expected to demand benefit cuts and broader job classifications. Griping has already begun. "They want us to do more and more and offer us less and less," says Bill Parker, president of UAW Local 1700 in Detroit and head of a Chrysler work force. In theory, Detroit could emulate the transplants and set up nonunionized shops in the South, but the UAW would probably bring assembly operations to a halt...
Though the UAW has resisted manufacturers' attempts to outsource much production to lower-paying suppliers, GM may have set a precedent with its new Cadillac plant in Lansing, Mich., which opened last year. Be more flexible about work rules, and let us outsource more, GM said, or we'll set up shop in Mexico or Canada (where the Canadian Auto Workers split from its American parent in 1985). The plant is now a model of Detroit lean and mean. Its vehicles rate second, to Lexus, in initial quality. Suppliers deliver components every four hours (vs. every two weeks at some...