UAW, GM to open bargaining July 13, FCA the next day - USA TODAY
UAW, GM to open bargaining July 13, FCA the next day DETROIT — Negotiations between the UAW and the Detroit 3 automakers open July 13 amid the industry's most financially healthy period in more than a decade, especially in North America. ly/1Nb5RJD DETROIT — Negotiations between the UAW and the Detroit 3 automakers open July 13 amid the industry's most financially healthy period in more than a decade, especially in North America. The auto companies' healthy profits in recent years came after United Auto Workers members agreed to lower wages. Among the biggest issues will be compressing, if not eliminating, the $9- to $13-an-hour wage gap between UAW workers hired before and after 2007. The UAW also will push to reinstate a limit on the percentage of workers who can be hired at what is... Today, General Motors and FCA have no limits, but Ford accepted a 20% limit in its 2011 contract. Tier 1 workers, people hired before 2007 who make about $28. 50 an hour — almost $60,000 a year for a 40-hour week — have not have a raise in their base wage in eight to 10 years. Art Schwartz, a former director of GM's labor relations, said he thinks the union will chose Ford to negotiate the main agreement, primarily because of the long relationship between Ford's chief negotiator, Bill Dirksen, and UAW Vice President... Source: www.usatoday.com
