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...UAW is expected to give up the controversial jobs bank and approve a change in funding the VEBA trust that is supposed to take over paying for health-care of blue-collar retirees in January, 2010. The $7 billion contribution GM owes its VEBA could be postponed indefinitely, according to Sean McAlinden, vice president of the Center For Automotive Research in Ann Arbor...
...However, another contract the union signed with Mitsubishi back in September could become the template for the union's next contract with Detroit automakers. The UAW-Mitsubishi contract, which covers roughly 1,100 workers at the Japanese automaker's plant in Normal, Ill., called for workers to take a 14% pay cut, rolling back wages to $24 per hour from $28 per hour...
...UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said Wednesday afternoon that the union was taking two immediate steps to help bolster the three struggling automakers, which he said are suffering a triple calamity of collapsing sales, tumbling consumer confidence and the frozen credit markets. (See pictures of the recession...
From the union's perspective, the health-care benefits always represented deferred wages, says Jerry Tucker, a former member of the UAW board. In addition, as GM, Ford and Chrysler have cut their blue-collar payrolls in half, from 300,000 to 150,000, over the past three years, the health-care benefits have become more important, he says. "More than two-thirds of workers taking early retirement aren't eligible for Medicare. A lot of them didn't even want to retire," he says. UAW president Ron Gettelfinger said in the fall of 2007 that the VEBA trusts would...
...union spokesman declined to say whether the financing of the VEBA was being discussed as the UAW and the automakers explore the ramifications of the current crisis and the possibility of additional concessions. "We're at the table every day," said one union official who asked not to be identified...