UAW&#39;s Gettelfinger says automakers &quot;posturing&quot;
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Detroit&#39;s Big Three automakers are  &quot;posturing&quot; when they say they need a $30 reduction in hourly  wages and benefits as they try to return to profitability, the  United Auto Workers union president said on Friday.
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United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger and Vice President Cal Rapson said on Friday that a strike is one possible option during the upcoming national negotiations with U.S.-based automakers.
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Negotiators from Volkswagen and the IG Metall industrial union headed into a fifth round of wage talks Thursday, with the union threatening to launch a flurry of short warning strikes if it doesn&#39;t get the job guarantees and wage increases it&#39;s demanding.
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Volkswagen (VW) and its workers headed into crucial wage negotiations yesterday that will sorely test the tradition of labour-management co-operation at the car maker as it struggles
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Leaders of Germany's auto industry rejected a recent rash of criticism that they lack initiative to build more environmentally friendly cars, saying in comments published Sunday they were working on new, ...Comment
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Volkswagen enters a fresh round of talks with its workers on Tuesday but analysts say little headway is likely as unions protest against the carmaker's threats to axe more than 30,000 employees in Germany.
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Volkswagen AG, Europe's biggest automaker, said Friday it was open to labor union demands for job guarantees if employees agree to work longer for the same pay.
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The world&#39;s largest automaker launched negotiations with European employees after it unveiled the cost-cutting plans in October, triggering days of walkouts at GM&#39;s German plants.
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FRANKFURT -- Automaker Volkswagen AG said yesterday there is ''no room&quot; for wage increases as it prepares for pay talks with Germany's largest industrial union, and detailed proposals to trim labor costs by cutting paid breaks and increasing flexible working time.
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RÃ¼diger Assion, a spokesman for General Motors, trying to persuade union members striking over the company&#39;s plans to cut 12,000 jobs at its Opel plants in Germany that strikes would risk more jobs.
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Both Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United Automobile Workers union, and Rick Wagoner, chief executive of General Motors have everything on the line in negotiations that continued Sunday.
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Wage talks next month at German automaker Volkswagen appear off to a difficult start after the powerful IG Metall union demanded a four percent wage rise and job guarantees for its members.
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UAW calls first nationwide action against carmaker since 1970.
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A deal seems to be taking shape in wage talks between Volkswagen and the IG Metall metalworkers union, the head of the works council at Europe&#39;s biggest carmaker said Wednesday.
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Volkswagen challenged its workers with a tough wage plan on Monday ahead of talks seen as a gauge of their readiness to favor job security over pay
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DETROIT, Oct. 20 -- Workers at three more local unions of the United Auto Workers have rejected a tentative contract agreement between the UAW and Chrysler, even as union leaders from Detroit spent the latter part of the week lobbying for yes votes.
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HANOVER, Germany  - German engineering union IG   Metall has extended until Wednesday its ultimatum to Volkswagen   VOWG.DE to provide binding and concrete investments that will   secure jobs for its German workforce.