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DETROIT: General Motor's labor woes continued as the United Auto Workers went on strike today at a key plant which manufactures transmission for most GM vehicles made in North America. The walkout, the sixth this year, involves 2,800 member of UAW Local 909 from the automaker's Warren, Michigan facility. The workers are upset at company plans to transfer wheel-making operations from the Warren plant and replace them with work from the Buick City plant in Flint, which the automaker may shut down within months. Although talks are expected to resume today, GM officials fear that...
...wife have since found new jobs, but his political interests have stayed strong. A political middle-of-the-roader, Williams would like to see the budget balanced, but not at the expense of Social Security and Medicare or environmental protection. Endorsements by the state AFL-CIO and UAW should help, but he is an underdog...
...environment and support education. In others he's more like a New Democrat: he supports welfare reform and balancing the budget by fighting abuses of the system. But while the Muskegon native, campaigning in his father's 1950 Ford pickup, has several key endorsements, including one from the uaw, the Second District usually votes Republican...
Fricano began work at age 19 at a Chevrolet plant. Now on the UAW's International Union Executive Board, he hopes to make this race a referendum on the Contract with America, which he calls the Contract on America. Facing Bill Paxon, one of Newt Gingrich's lieutenants, Fricano has made hay of Paxon's vote against the minimum-wage hike. In this battle between labor and the G.O.P. Congress, Fricano has strong support despite the district's solid Republicanism...
...shop -- but both sides know that larger issues are at stake. What + the corporation insists is a drive to banish outmoded practices that have made its factories the least efficient in the auto industry is perceived by the union as an effort to eliminate jobs. Dave Kimmel, president of UAW Local 1714, said his members received support from workers at distant plants whose weekly incomes are dropping from $700 to $200 a week. "Job security is important to everybody," he said. But the strike also came at an awkward time for the automaker. With stocks of the best-selling Saturn...