UAW, GM reach agreement
FindLaw (Reuters) reports: “UAW Ends Contract Talks with Big Three.”
“The United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp.
“The GM deal wraps up what one union observer said was the quickest set of talks between the once militant UAW and the automakers since World War II. Talks began in mid-July and intensified in the week ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline, when the previous contracts expired.
The speed ‘indicates two things; stability, in the labor relations dimension of the industry, and … both sides are making it plain they want to work together to make the industry more competitive,’ said Harley Shaiken, a labor professor at the University of California-Berkeley.”
