U.S. Auto Workers Protest Outsourcing
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Hundreds of auto workers demonstrated outside Ford Motor Co.'s  corporate headquarters on Friday to protest against its plans to build a new line of mid-size passenger cars in Mexico instead of the United States.
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Clutching American flags and signs that read "America was formed by immigrants," more than 300 protesters on Saturday denounced a city proposal that would prohibit landlords from leasing to illegal immigrants.
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WASHINGTON -- Confronted with congressional concerns about global warming, the leaders of the U.S. auto industry are highlighting their work to develop alternative vehicles and asserting that the burdens of climate change cannot fall to one industry alone.
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General Motors Corp., the world&#39;s biggest carmaker, faced wider production cutbacks in Europe as a six-day protest against job-cut plans spread and a shortage of parts from Germany halted work at a Belgian car plant.
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Staff at  General Motors are to hold protests across Europe at the company's plans to cut 12,000 jobs.
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WASHINGTON -- Hundreds of workers rallied on the steps of the Labor Department yesterday to protest the implementation of new rules they say will cause as many as 6 million Americans to lose their overtime pay. But the Bush administration officials who crafted the complex regulations insisted more workers will actually qualify for extra pay under the plan, which almost ...
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Angry workers at an Opel car plant in Germany stayed off the job yesterday, continuing their protest against plans by parent company General Motors for thousands of job cuts and defying calls from union leaders and the government to return to work.
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Soaring gas prices, anxiety about petro-terrorism and worries about global warming are all chipping away at support for the auto industry in Washington.
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Ratification of the tentative labor contract between the United Auto Workers union and Chrysler LLC was thrown into jeopardy on Monday after workers at four of the eight assembly plants that must vote on the deal rejected it.
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In the largest chauffeur-driven protest in Washington's history, hedge-fund managers take to the streets.
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Outraged workers in Germany refuse to resume production as automaker seeks to save $623.8Ma year. FRANKFURT, Germany  - General Motors management started negotiations with union leaders Monday over
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A United Auto Workers local thinks that H-1B visa holders are doing work previously done by union members at Chrysler's technical center, although the auto maker denies that is the case.
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Retailers in the United States on Wednesday protested a request by the countryÂ¡Â¯s textile producers for protection from a potential flood of Chinese products when quotas are lifted at the end of this year.
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Labor protests in the high-tech industry are rare, but IBM is in midst of one -- and it&#39;s unfolding entirely online. Instead of waving protest signs outside the company gates, affected workers are airing, in comments accompanying an online petition, disappointment, anger, and bitterness with the company over a salary cut&#160; IBM&#39;s U.S. workforce.Since its announcement last month, more than 1,200 people have signed a petition sponsored by the Alliance@IBM, protesting pay cuts to 7,600 technical support employees.. Whether all these signatures are from affected employees is not certain, but many of the comments seem authentic, and often heartfelt.Comments such as &quot;11 years on call ... Now less money than when in started in 97,&quot; &quot;Previous loyal employee ... No more,&quot; and &quot;This is not fair. I did not deserve this after all my hard work,&quot; are typical.This change in how technical support workers are paid stems from a federal class action lawsuit filed by some employees in early 2006. In it, the workers complained they were not getting paid overtime after a 40-hour work week and they sought back pay. IBM settled the case that same year for $65 million.Last month, IBM told workers that it was reclassifying technical services and IT specialist jobs to nonexempt positions, making them eligible for overtime. But the company said it was also making a 15% base salary adjustment -- down.Overtime pay, as a well as a transition payment to help where overtime doesn&#39;t meet the base pay adjustment, will offset this pay cut according to the company. The company characterized the change as a &quot;pay remix&quot; in a series of slides to managers that was subsequently leaked. But not all the employees will be able to offset the pay cut with overtime, according to information sent to managers; about one third of the affected employees are working on average less than 45 hours a week, the apparent salary parity threshold.IBM spokesman Fred McNeese said that were IBM to pay overtime on top of salaries that were already competitive with the industry, the company would be uncompetitive. McNeese&#39;s point is listed as a key one in the slides sent to managers. &quot;Adding overtime compensation to already competitive pay would quickly produce costs that exceed competitive levels -- an undesirable result for employees and our clients.&quot;McNeese believes that overall compensation for employees after the change &quot;should be the same.&quot;Two affected employees, who spoke on the condition that their names not be used, disagreed that their pay would be similar. They argued that overtime was far from certain, required managerial approval, and opportunities for it could vary depending on business. Moreover, the cut in base pay affected those aspects of compensation calculated on base salary alone, such as insurance and disability. They also argued that it could affect personal areas, such as ability to qualify at a certain mortgage amount. One employee said that it rolls back his salary to what he earned in 2001.The employees were also skeptical of the company&#39;s assertion that this change wasn&#39;t put in place to cut overall costs, and there are suspicions that wage pressure from offshore centers may be at work -- something IBM denies. &quot;As far as I am concerned, they are going to save money,&quot; said one employee.Lee Conrad, a former IBM employee who is now national coordinator of the Alliance@IBM in Endicott, NY, said he believes globalization may be a factor in the pay cut decision and suspects other companies will be looking at how IBM manages the pay cut. &quot;If IBM is an indication of what&#39;s ahead, it&#39;s going to be a rough ride for American workers,&quot; he said.The union, which is part of the Communications Workers of America, represents about 6,000 of IBM&#39;s total U.S. workforce of 125,000. It would need at least 60 percent membership to have bargaining power with the company, said Conrad.Conrad said he been impressed by the outspoken reaction of IBM employees. &quot;For IBMers to sign their name publicly to a petition -- that says a lot,&quot; he said.Computerworld is an InfoWorld affiliate.&#160;
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US automakers on Tuesday challenged California&#39;s new air quality regulations to reduce exhaust pipe emissions from cars and trucks.
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Thousands of employees at General Motorsâ European plants staged protests today against the plan to slash 12,000 jobs across the continent, while a shortage of parts from a striking German plant forced two other factories to stop production.
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BOCHUM, Germany  - Thousands of embittered car  workers rallied across Europe against mass job cuts planned by  General Motors, the world's biggest automaker, as labor unrest  disrupted output at more GM plants Tuesday.