UAW President Bob King has a notorious aversion to wearing ties. But his choice of clothing was particularly significant, as a veteran of the work and the Union's negotiating team met with their counterparts from the Chrysler Monday, and the opening of negotiations of the Treaty, covering the 23 000 workers paid by the hour. Both parties what they described as a sign of solidarity, went out in the corresponding Maroon jacket.
There is no doubt that the contract talks, kicking off this week between the United Auto Workers Union and the Detroit big three automobile manufacturers differ from recent years. Both parties recognize that domestic producers are still trying to themselves after the worst of the slump the industry since the great depression. But the future of the UAW's on the line.
The King and his team will be cycling from Chrysler for General Motors to Ford this week for a photo shoot of the ceremonial grip and grin. Union and management teams behind the scenes, quietly meeting month on key questions, which they hope to solve before the date of the contract in mid-September.
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Now more than ever before, work, and applied as in the case that they have a common objective, according to many in the talks.
2009 Bankruptcy of General Motors and Chrysler drove home the fact that the big three Detroit automakers could disappear if they can't solve the basic problems which the creator deeply into debt and decreased steadily in the decades, their sales and market share.
"We must be competitive," said Mark fields, President of Ford in America. The American producer was the only one of the big three automakers to avoid filing for protection from two years ago, but unlike its crosstown rivals, took on debts, which is desperately trying to get. So, Ford is expected to seek further concessions to get from the year 2007, when the latest round of Treaty talks took place.
Ford estimates that it is about US $ 58 per hour in wages and benefits for each employee, spent. Chrysler says it's closer to $ 52. It is about equal to the Chrysler officials believe their rivals import applies to many so-called "Transplant" the Assembly line, who grew up in the whole country for the last quarter-century. The presence of these factories as a negotiation moves forward in Detroit."We are from the game, the head of labour costs (sector)," said one senior source said the negotiations at Chrysler. Recently in 2006, the Devils about 76 per hour of work, UAW, which was "unsustainable". Source Source doesn't want to be named because negotiations are underway.
While many members of the UAW would like to win back some of the concessions in the 2007 and 2009, Union leaders are doing relatively little noise about the increase in wages or benefits this year. Negotiation is more likely that they will focus on the where to allocate a fixed "bucket" cash, perhaps streamline the costs of health care for a few more dollars in payroll envelopes, said the source.
Enhanced profit
If you want more money, the UAW said it will seek in the form of extended programs share in the profits. "Our members deserve a greater share of" when times are good, the King said recently.
There is one more reason why it will be this year's talks, otherwise than in the past. The Federal Government prohibits the UAW from remarkable, if approved by the GM and the Chrysler bailout two years ago. It is possible to strike at Ford, there was no one there in the third century. Instead, a deadlock could lead to binding arbitration.
And the King said, not his agenda at Chrysler. "If the referee is going to happen, if this happens, then I would say that we've done our job."
One of several issues, which could be a sticking point concerns the structure of two levels of wages, UAW, approved in 2007. The King is angry that you hired to half the wages are still "cost of living." On the other hand, it was also said that the lower range is to support Detroit automakers to add jobs.
GM is building a new subcompact Chevrolet Suburban Detroit Sonic in the plant, rather than the imports from Korea, as well as the previous model of the Chevrolet Aveo. Chrysler source, said that the manufacturer is the study of 300 different plans to return to work, which should save money before typing.
Despite the recent enlargement of the plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan and Detroit Chrysler has barely a third the number of the UAW workers employed ten years ago. A total of UAW membership, the Union showed was 376,612 at the end of 2010, from the top of 1.53 million in 1979.
"It is not sustainable," said Harley Shaiken, a former member of the UAW, and now the work of Professor at the University of California, Berkley.
One of the problems of the UAW will craft a contract that not only keeps the competitive Detroit makers, but may also help the next meeting the most urgent objectives of the Union: the arrangement of the transplant. So far, only three are approved by the UAW representation and one former GM/Toyota joint venture near San Francisco, is over.
UAW organizers came to realize that shows strength gain transplant where workers usually are looking for stable jobs. On the contrary, the pitch will have to be, what King called "creative solutions to problems", and the ability to deliver better wages and benefits than workers can win on their own.
So what happens in Detroit for the next month, and-to determine not only what is in the pocket of three Union personnel, but whether they have a viable Union belongs to.
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