Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Just 30 minutes before the mutually agreed-upon deadline of midnight Thursday, both sides admitted failure. Said U.A.W. President Douglas Fraser: "We tried hard, and I think the company tried hard, but we couldn't get the ingredients that are necessary to make a settlement." Added Alfred S. Warren Jr., GM's chief negotiator: "We are deeply disappointed...
Bargaining broke down over specific details of job security, reductions in wages and benefits, and the duration of a new contract. But there was clearly an incentive for both sides to start talking again soon. Said Alfred S. Warren Jr., the chief negotiator for General Motors: "I don't think the industry can wait. We need something now." Late last week U.A.W. officials voted to resume negotiations where they had left off early this week...
...Louisville assembly plant: "I'm willing to show the American people that we are ready to sacrifice. It might swing them back to American products." GM workers, however, appear to be taking a harder line. Says Pete Kelly, a wood-model maker at the GM tech center in Warren, Mich., and a leader of dissident U.A.W. members: "If we give concessions now, they will automate that much faster and there will be more workers out of jobs. It started at Chrysler. We want to stop...
...policy lays the reality bare for the students," Dr. Warren E.C. Wacker, director of UHS, said yesterday...
...takeover bid, estimated to cost $6.15 billion, the second largest corporate coupling in U.S. history. (The largest merger was the $7.5 billion merger of Conoco and Du Pont in 1981.) Workers began to prepare checks for the 17,000 selling Marathon shareholders just hours after Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger gave a green light to U.S. Steel's offer of $125 a share for 51% of Marathon's stock. Two months ago, the oil company's stock was $81 a share...