Striking General Motors workers will remain on the picket lines for at least another week, even as the United Auto Workers national council voted to recommend a tentative agreement with GM for ratification.
The deal to end the month-long strike at General Motors will not save an assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio, and two other transmission plants, according to a person familiar with the agreement.
Negotiators from General Motors and the United Auto Workers union have reached a tentative deal to end a 31-day strike by nearly 50,000 workers.
The end could be on the horizon for the United Auto Workers union's four-week long strike against General Motors.
The UAW-GM Strike is now approaching week five, and both sides are eager to make a deal.
As the United Auto Workers union strike against General Motors reached the end of its fourth week Sunday, the union moved to raise the level of financial support for nearly 50,000 GM workers who walked off the job.
General Motors has told the United Auto Workers union that it's time the two sides reach a deal to end the nearly four-week-long strike. The work stoppage has ground GM's vehicle production to a halt and forced nearly 50,000 hourly workers to live on strike benefits $250 a week.
On the 24th day of the strike against General Motors, company CEO Mary Barra called United Auto Workers union President Gary Jones and Vice President Terry Dittes for a face-to-face meeting — their first since the strike began, according to three sources familiar with the meeting.
The talks to resolve the longest auto industry strike in decades have taken place in downtown Detroit for 24 straight days. But the biggest issue on the table now revolves around what happens in Mexico.
The United Auto Workers union strike at General Motors started its fourth week Monday. With no immediate end in site, losses are mounting for both the automaker, its workers, and the company's suppliers.
Talks between the United Auto Workers union and General Motors "have taken a turn for the worse," according to the union's chief negotiator, suggesting that no immediate end is in sight for the auto industry's longest strike in decades.
On Day 19 of the United Auto Workers union strike at General Motors, signs are emerging that the two sides are making progress on a deal to end the industry's longest work stoppage in decades.
In July, General Motors unveiled a radically new version of the Chevrolet Corvette. For the 2020 model year, the sports car's engine will be behind the seats instead of under the hood, where it has been in Corvettes since 1953. Now GM has unveiled the convertible version with another major new development.
We're learning new information tonight about the contract talks between General Motors and the United Auto Workers union.
Negotiators for the United Auto Workers union and General Motors were back at the negotiating table Monday after talks throughout the weekend failed to reach a deal to end one of the longest auto strike in decades.
As recently as December 2016, the massive and proud General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio, was running three work shifts a day, employing more than 3,000 hourly workers making the Chevrolet Cruze. GM made about 190,000 of the compact sedans that year.
General Motors agreed Thursday to reinstate all health insurance coverage for its nearly 50,000 striking hourly workers, a sign that the 11-day old strike by the United Auto Workers union might be nearing its end.
As striking workers picketed idled General Motors plants for a 10th day on Wednesday, negotiators for the company and the United Auto Workers union made progress in reaching a deal to end the nation's biggest strike in more than a decade, according to people familiar with the talks.
As the United Auto Workers' union strike against General Motors entered its second week Monday, strikers for the first time became eligible for modest strike benefits of $250 a week.
Health care benefits are really important to many union workers -- important enough to give up pay raises or even to walk off the job to keep the coverage they've negotiated.
The United Auto Workers union strike against GM showed no signs of a quick conclusion as its impact on other plants and workers continues to spread.
An Eastpointe, Michigan family is sharing the difficult uphill battle they now face after GM announced health care for employees would be cut off during the strike.
Negotiators for the United Auto Workers union and General Motors returned to the table Thursday morning, as rank and file workers from the automaker's manned picket lines for a fourth day.
The nearly 50,000 striking General Motors workers are just the beginning. Soon hundreds of thousands of people could be off the job because of the walkout.
