The talks are off: UAW goes on strike against GM
We'd be remiss to miss posting about the biggest automobile news of the day, even though it doesn't directly tie in to green vehicles: 73,000 UAW members at 59 GM plants walked off the job today at 11 am. The strike is due to failed contract negotiations. For now, GM will be OK. The company has a 67-day supply of most of its cars (at the current sales rate), although some of the more popular vehicles will only be available for the next 26 days if everything continues as it is now.
You can see a gallery of strike photos here. Autoblog is totally on top of the developments. Keep checking AB for the latest, we just didn't want to leave ABG readers out of the loop.
[Source: Autoblog]
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Steve C 3:21PM (9/24/2007)
Just when it looked like the UAW might actually be waking up to reality, they reset their clocks backwards by about 50 years.
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Kardax 3:37PM (9/24/2007)
For UAW workers, this isn't a horribly bad thing. With such huge inventories of unsold vehicles, they'd inevitably be hit with severe reductions in work hours, anyway.
As long as GM doesn't actually exhaust their supplies of something, no one is really getting hurt.
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Michael 9:33PM (9/24/2007)
Totally agree with you Steve. The days for Unions went out with bell bottoms, and just like bell bottoms, *Unions have tried to make a com back but failed miserably. Unions were completely invaluable back in the day but the modern business world has no place for them anymore. Most of the time all they do is cause
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motorman 9:50AM (9/25/2007)
the strike is a "sup" to the members to let them feel they are in charge before the union bosses cave to GM demands because they know what the real story is and it is not pretty if GM does not get it's way
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