Ford Motor Co.'s top manufacturing executive says the company will save money with a new contract ratified last weekend by the Canadian Auto Workers, even though it doesn't include a lower-tier pay scale for new hires. ...more

May 6, 2008

Douglas A. Fraser, who led the United Auto Workers union through dark hours in the U.S. auto industry in the 1970s and '80s and was instrumental in the effort that saved Chrysler from bankruptcy, has died. He was 91. ...more

February 25, 2008

TAMPA BAY AREA Digital Studios Expands Tampa Digital Studios is expanding its film and video operations by acquiring the sports programming and production arm of Tampa-based Focused TV Productions. That four-employee unit of Focused TV produces programming for ABC, ESPN, Versus, NBC and other networks, with coverage of events such as the ESPN show dog championships and offshore powerboat racing. Tampa Digital Studios, one of the larger media production companies in west Florida, is based in Ybor City and will have about 40 employees after the merger. ...more

February 23, 2008

For all the good in GM's 2007 results - near-record worldwide sales, and reductions in labor costs and retiree health obligations - there is no getting around the $38.7 billion in red ink. ...more

February 13, 2008

Ford Motor Co. will offer buyout and early retirement packages to 54,000 U.S. hourly workers, or 93 percent of its hourly work force, in an effort to cut costs and replace those leaving with lower-paid workers. Thursday's announcement came as Ford said it narrowed its losses in 2007 but warned that the outlook for U.S. sales in 2008 remains grim. ...more

January 25, 2008

The will of the people is being violated by many organizations, churches, unions,. Unions were organized to represent "we the people," but if you look how the wage scale has remained low for the last 50 years, and how many of our largest unions represent and promote foreign nationals, creating huge numbers of people for each and every job, forcing wage scales down. The AF of C, Teamsters, United Auto Workers, United Aircraft Workers are just a few. Many of these unions have corporations sitting on both sides of the negotiating table on all contracts. This was made illegal many years ago, in the 75th Congress, where the Pinkerton Detective Agency had infiltrated the leadership of many unions for corporations, so as to control unions. ...more

December 1, 2007

General Motors Corp. probably thought nothing could be worse than poor quality ratings or a strike by the United Auto Workers union. ...more

November 30, 2007

Chrysler LLC began laying off thousands of salaried workers Wednesday as part of an effort to slash costs in the company's new era of private ownership, a spokesman said. ...more

November 1, 2007

Its years as the nation's largest employer a distant memory, General Motors may still be setting the trend for corporate-worker relations in shedding its obligation for the health care of 340,000 retirees. ...more

October 16, 2007

There was some dissent and a lot of questions, but in the end, local United Auto Workers leaders voted to recommend approval of a new four-year contract with Chrysler LLC that is similar to one ratified last week with General Motors Corp. ...more

October 16, 2007