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...But the United Auto Workers, a trade union, has been a rare domestic voice of support for the commerce department investigation....
...The “Uber Elevate” summit, which convenes entrepreneurs, manufacturers and regulators in the aerospace industry, has just held its second edition....
...Drew Greenblatt surveys the shop floor of his small factory in a down-at-heel district of Baltimore, Maryland, where two workers are using a large steel-bending robot....
...Automobile Workers union....
...A second vulnerability was the grip of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, led by Walter Reuther, who exploited the complacency of the Big Three in the 1950s and 1960s, when money was flowing, to hammer...
...Auto Workers healthcare trust....
...Negotiations with bondholders on a debt-for-equity exchange have stalled while GM seeks to nail down a deal with the United Auto Workers union on funding a new union-managed healthcare trust....
...GM and Chrysler are also in talks with the US United Auto Workers union on concessions required under their request for billions of dollars in aid from Washington....
...The two carmakers are due to present detailed turnround plans to the government by February 17, and to finalise concessions from the United Auto Workers union and other stakeholders by the end of April....
...Chrysler said it had implemented or “fundamentally agreed on” cost-cutting concessions from the United Auto Workers union, dealers, suppliers and second-lien lenders....
...However, the biggest US carmaker will be pressing bondholders for deep concessions in parallel with its efforts to secure cost-cutting agreements from the United Auto Workers’ union and its dealers and suppliers...
...And labelling schemes are notoriously complex and tricky to implement. Even the relatively simple ”traffic light” system of denoting a food’s fat, salt and sugar content has triggered fierce debate....
...Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW), used to represent the aristocrats of the US union movement – mostly well-paid blue-collar...
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