The United Auto Workers international executive board has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president.
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said Tuesday in a news release that Obama has given the country a positive vision for a better America and concrete plans to achieve it.
Gettelfinger notes the Illinois senator has pledged to rebuild the country’s manufacturing base and [...]
Barack Obama is picking up a major labor endorsement. The United Auto Workers international executive board tossed its support to the presumptive Democratic candidate.
Union President Ron Gettelfinger said in a news release that Obama has given the country a positive vision for a better America and concrete plans to achieve it, including a pledge to [...]
Even as the Canadian Auto Workers union was negotiating its new labour contracts with the Detroit Three this spring, the U.S. market for pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles was collapsing.
Sales were plunging faster than anyone in the union realized and so quickly that even senior executives at Chrysler LLC, Ford Motor Co. and General [...]
The state Department of Transportation is balking at issuing the United Auto Workers union a permit allowing workers to gather this weekend along Route 2 in front of Foxwoods to protest the grand opening of the new MGM Grand.
The union, which won an election last fall to represent table game dealers at Foxwoods, applied for [...]
The United Auto Workers are going ahead with plans to picket the opening of MGM Grand at Foxwoods this weekend.
The union will stage a number of protests and demonstrations Saturday and Sunday at the Route 2 entrances to the casino, union officials said. MGM Grand is scheduled to open to the public at midnight Saturday [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. auto sales “dropped sharply” in recent months and may fall 7 percent this year, while higher costs from tougher environmental regulations may pose a long-term challenge, Standard %26amp; Poor’s said in a report on Tuesday.
U.S. auto sales may fall to 14.9 million this year from 16.1 [...]
In a statement released later Sunday, American Axle said the UAW rejected its request that a federal mediator assist in the negotiations.”AAM had hoped that the involvement of an impartial third party at the bargaining table could assist both sides. … AAM was disappointed in the UAW’s decision,” the statement said.UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chrysler LLC expects to post a “big” decline in March U.S. sales compared with a year earlier, reflecting the automaker’s decision to pull back from less profitable deals for car rental agencies, Chrysler sales chief Jim Press said on Wednesday.
Press was speaking to reporters at an event [...]
DETROIT%26The United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. have taken a big legal step toward shifting billions in retiree health care costs from the automaker to an independent trust fund. The union and attorneys representing several retirees sued GM on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Detroit in an effort to [...]
U.S. stock indexes tumbled Friday afternoon as a modest morning rally gave way to a retailer’s prediction of weak first quarter sales.
J.C. Penny’s statements took their toll on major market boards, analysts said.
The Dow Jones industrial fell 86.06 points by close Friday, off 0.7 percent to 12,216.40.
The Standard and Poor’s 500 index lost 10.54 points [...]
