Did The UAW Sell Out The Loyal Rank And File To Boost Membership?

The Detroit-based auto industry could face significant threats over the next four years: tighter regulation, soft demand and tougher competition. High costs from union labor won't be one of them.

A successful ratification vote by Ford Motor Co. hourly workers, following ratifications at General Motors Co.  and Chrysler Corp., seals the four-year wage and benefit deal between the Detroit Three automakers and the United Auto Workers union. "Detroit automakers haven't solved everything. Competition with the [foreign] transplants is still very difficult," said Sean McAlinden, a labor economist with the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan. "But the UAW contract is no longer the strategic threat it's been."

 

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AdmiralT20 - 10/21/2011 10:52:02 PM

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Agent009,

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uaw_lax - 10/21/2011 11:00:37 PM

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009 lets talk about cars please, I like your site and wish you nothing but the best but your articles are keeping posters away by the droves.