Should The UAW Be Given A Seat On the Board Of Directors Of Each Of The Detroit Automakers?

Give him this United Auto Workers President Bob King isn't afraid of BHAGs Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals.

In the opening week of national contract talks with Detroit's automakers, he vows to help keep the companies competitive even as he pledges to get his members a bigger piece of the action. He aims to organize foreign rivals even as he says the union would brand them human rights violators if they fail to accede to the UAW's self-made "Principles for Fair Union Elections."