UAW Reconsiders Hard Line Stance on Chrysler

United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger said Monday the union is reconsidering whether it should give health-care concessions to the Chrysler Group.

The union in September told Chrysler it wouldn't give the company similar health concessions to those agreed to last year with General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. because Chrysler's parent company, DaimlerChrysler AG, was in better financial shape.

In light of Chrysler's $1.5 billion third-quarter loss and its expected annual loss of $1.2 billion, Gettelfinger said the union was taking another look at the automaker's financial position. Prior to the problems late this year, Chrysler had posted 12 straight profitable quarters.

"Let's just say that we're taking a look at the books of Chrysler and we'll see what comes of that," Gettelfinger told Paul W. Smith in an interview on WJR-760.







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chewy - 12/20/2006 3:32:59 AM

+1 Boost

UAW, hohum.

sold2early - 12/20/2006 8:50:15 AM

+3 Boost

Stick to your guns, UAW, and ride the ship all the way down to the ocean floor.

woood - 12/22/2006 9:09:30 PM

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UAW, seek your interests first before the company's. Then you will see these companies go down and you with them.