The contract makes clear that the so-called “pathway” to regular employment in the contract highlights touted by the UAW is a fraud.
The broad support for a united struggle by workers contrasts with the efforts by the UAW and Unifor to fan the flames of nationalism.
The union and works councils have signed up to almost every demand of PSA boss Carlos Tavares and Opel chief Michael Lohscheller.
With only weeks to go before 1,300 layoffs, opposition is mounting to the job cuts.
The profit figures underscore the value of the 2015 GM-UAW contract to the giant automaker and its wealthiest investors, including the United Auto Workers bureaucracy.
General Motors announced that it made $11 billion in pre-tax profits last year as residents in Flint continue to suffer from the water, which was chiefly poisoned by the giant automaker.
Workers said the record profits being recorded by the Detroit automakers were paid for by the blood and sweat of workers.
The top four bargainers for the UAW—Dennis Williams, James Settles, Cindy Estrada and Norwood Jewell—have a long record of imposing the dictates of corporate management.
The deal funnels money into the pockets of wealthy stockholders and, not coincidently, into the retiree health care fund controlled by the UAW.
In remarks to the Detroit News, the president attempted to whitewash the role of company executives who made a calculated decision to sacrifice public safety for private profit.
GM did not disclose its finding regarding the cause of the crash in a death inquiry it submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Reports indicate that Honda and other automakers knew that airbags on their vehicles could explode, posing a risk of death or injury to occupants, but dragged out a recall.
To date there have been 107 death claims relating to a deadly ignition defect that can cause airbags not to deploy.
James L. Gibson, a 48-year-old worker for Quaker Chemical, was pronounced dead at Marion General Hospital about an hour after the blast.
GM hopes to settle on the cheap its liabilities from a deadly ignition defect tied to numerous fatal crashes.
Despite thousands of complaints, GM classified the problem as a “customer satisfaction” issue.
A US House of Representatives panel investigating the recent GM recall failed to ask CEO Mary Barra or attorney Anton Valukas any serious or penetrating questions
The internal investigation claims bureaucratic incompetence and communication glitches were behind the automaker’s failure to recall defective vehicles responsible for scores if not hundreds of fatal accidents.
Last week the US Department of Transportation ended its investigation into General Motors over an ignition switch default, which led to the loss of at least 13 lives.
The family of Brooke Melton is asking for the reopening of the lawsuit over the death of their daughter in the crash of her Chevrolet Cobalt.
