freep.com - 1/10/2009
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WASHINGTON -- Concessions forced on the UAW could be stripped from a $17.4-billion auto industry rescue plan, even as companies and the union would have to answer to a stronger car czar, under a bill unveiled Friday that House Democrats plan to vote on next week. The proposed changes, revealed ...
freep.com - 1/9/2009
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WASHINGTON The UAW and its local unions
are barred from striking General Motors Corp. as long...
as GM has loans from the federal government, according to the agreement GM signed with the Bush administration last month. The U.S. Treasury set myriad ...
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As condition of loan, UAW can't strike against GM | ...
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... the House with a large majority, but failed in the Senate, he'd be willing to accept the word of the Obama team "that they will act as if it were law." The bill also would require the Obama administration to decide by Feb. 1 what terms the automakers, unions and creditors must meet to keep whatever loans they have and get any additional aid. The companies would then have until March 31 to show the new administration's car czar that they are making sufficient progress. Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20090110/BUSINESS01/901100... Labor friendly, the Democratic way.
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