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...main problem facing graduate students is their exclusion from the employment process, according to Connie M. Razza, a fifth-year graduate student in the English department at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a spokesperson for the Student Association of Graduate Employees-United Auto Workers (SAGE-UAW) at UCLA...
While the students at UCLA have not received benefits like those at Ann Arbor or Wisconsin, they recently won a major legal battle when UCLA TAs and other graduate teachers voted to be represented by an affiliate of the UAW...
...UAW president Stephen Yokich said that there were no winners in the settlement," which has been ratified Wednesday by union members, says TIME reporter Joe Szczesny. "But clearly GM fell far short in its efforts to get a broad mandate to restructure its operation. A draw in the negotiations was a victory for the union." GM will likely put many of its factories on a round-the-clock schedule for the rest of the year to try and recover some of the $2.2 billion in lost profits the strike has cost it. Workers will get plenty of overtime...
FLINT: Now that the GM strike appears to be finally settled, who won? TIME reporter Joe Szczesny, who's been following the 54-day-long strike in Flint, says that the preliminary decision goes to the union. While details are still trickling out, UAW vice president Richard Shoemaker promised that the rank and file of the two local unions would get first look at the particulars...
...outweigh any benefits derived from taking a hard line. GM stock dropped more than two points Monday after weekend talks blew up, and was creeping back Tuesday only because analysts had fully expected the earnings carnage. In a desperate ploy, GM has asked a federal court to order the UAW into arbitration to settle the strikes, but legal experts don't give the move much of chance. It looks like a long hot summer for GM -- followed by a very long road back...