Topic: Bob King

UAW won't name foreign auto organizing target

DETROIT (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers has decided not to identify a single foreign automaker with U.S. plants on which to focus its organizing efforts, a change in strategy in a campaign central to the union's survival."We're shifting ...

UAW says workers approve Chrysler contract

DETROIT (Reuters) - Unionized workers at Chrysler Group LLC ratified a four-year labor pact on Wednesday, closing out the first round of talks since two of the three Detroit automakers nearly collapsed and took federal bailouts in 2009.The new United Auto Workers ...

Chrysler reaches deal with labor union

Chrysler and the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative new labor contract, the firm said in a statement on Wednesday in a deal expected to create 2,100 new jobs.The new contract, which covers approximately 26,000 Chrysler employees, will ...

Special report: Crunch time at America's richest union

DETROIT (Reuters) - Bob King, the president of the United Auto Workers, has a problem: the labor union that credits itself with creating the American middle class has glimpsed the end of the line.Two years after the wrenching restructuring of the U ...

UAW chief says "upbeat" on auto talks

DETROIT (Reuters) - United Auto Workers President Bob King said on Monday that he was "upbeat" about reaching a contract deal with U.S. automakers that would keep them competitive against Asian and European rivals."I'm upbeat because there is a real ...

UAW says in talks with foreign automakers in U.S.

TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers union is in talks with most of the foreign automakers in the United States to represent the hourly workers at their U.S. assembly plants, the union chief said on Wednesday."The vast majority ...

Automakers gun for healthcare savings in UAW talks

DETROIT (Reuters) - Worried about its rising healthcare costs, General Motors Co tried several years ago to buy a bar adjacent to its Janesville, Wisconsin assembly plant so it could eliminate a source of junk food and alcohol.The No. 1 U.S ...
Detroit's three big automakers head into contract talks with the United Auto Workers next week with an uncertain economy and limited prospects for gains for the union's 100,000 workers.People familiar with thinking inside General Motors, Ford and Chrysler ...

UAW talking to "a lot" of foreign carmakers

DETROIT (Reuters) - The United Auto Workers is talking with several foreign automakers about representing their U.S. plants' hourly workers and could see a deal by year end, top union officials said.UAW President Bob King has staked his reputation and the ...

Detroit's dilemma: How to share gains with UAW

DETROIT (Reuters) - Over the past two years, Ford Motor Co has roared back from the brink of failure, won accolades for its gains in quality, posted its highest profits in a decade and rewarded patient investors with a 14-fold increase in its ...