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...UAW struck against the General Motors Corporation for 67 days, paralyzing production of Chevrolets, Buicks. Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs, and shifting the Motor City into low gear. That strike was not of record breaking length...
...duration of last week's walkout against the Chrysler Corporation, the baby of the Big Three auto manufacturers, did challenge the record books: It was the shortest in UAW history. In comparison to past UAW actions, the cost of the shut-down to Chrysler was inconsequential...
Chrysler, albeit the baby of the three auto makers, is the largest employer and largest taxpayer in the Detroit metropolitian area. Of the 127,500 UAW-represented Chrysler workers throughout the U.S. and Canada, 95,000 work in the Detroit metropolitain area...
...general, last week's strike was expensive for the UAW. The shutdown reportedly cost the UAW about $5 million a day in strike benefits alone. The UAW gives each striking employee $30 to $40 a week, based on the striker's number of dependents...
...battle isn't over (and probably never will be). In the current issue of Solidarity, the UAW's paper, a group of Ford, G.M. and Chrysler workers call for an end to compulsory overtime, one of their major gripes now against the Big Three auto companies. "The foremen are just lazy," complains the President of one Ford local. "They could get all the people they need to work overtime voluntarily, just by asking more people. It's easier for them to point to workers, like they do now, and say, 'You gotta work, or else...