Gm Strike Of 1998

Let's Get Real: There'd Better Not Be a Ford Strike

The Auto Union did not organize a strike against Ford (F) since 1977. But now, as the gears until the UAW to negotiate a new contract, there is some talk that it might be time to depart from 34 years of history. Bloomberg provides a thorough analysis. Why? Because Ford was making money, pay its CEO handsomely - and because Ford is the only manufacturer can strike the UAW.

Lockdown bailout

To see its stake in General Motors (GM) and Chrysler preserved during the rescue, the UAW has been legally prohibited from striking or manufacturer. That leaves Ford, who did not need the money to rescue because of the foresight and financial management is therefore now very popular with the public. Ford UAW members said no to the no-strike clause.

So a strike of UAW Ford would be a PR suicide. Remember, this is a union that has done nothing but losing members for decades.It is trying to add them by organizing foreign "transplant" automakers - well, one anyway, Volkswagen - in the South, where organizing efforts have failed, failed, and again failed.

Maybe a Ford strike could be considered helpful in this regard, to show workers reluctant to, say, the new VW plant in Tennessee that the UAW still has the power to bring an automobile manufacturer to its knees. His knees!

Suicide!

Obviously, such a maneuver to enter an election year, as the automotive industry is to regain its balance and leading the nation out of a recession tenacious, would infuriate the administration of the Union friendly Obama.

It might also enrage the Ford workers.

pink scare: Verizon Workers Out On Strike

Members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) was released on August 7 after the vote massively - including 91 percent of CWA members - to authorize a strike. Workers are technicians and support staff to customers over the dividing lines from Verizon, which provides Internet and telephone land lines to homes and businesses in the Northeast.The telecommunications giant is attempting to rob employees of the benefits of the labor union has fought successfully for years, including the imposition of 25 percent of the costs of health care workers paid nothing, so far, the elimination of traditional pensions, and the weakening of job security. . The company announced $ 10.2 billion in profits in 2010 and net income for the first half of this year was 6.9 billion.Over the past four years, Verizon has obtained nearly $ 20 billion to its shareholders (a record of profit to justify the 258 million U.S. dollars spent on salaries, bonuses and stock options for only five of its top executives, including a new CEO Lowell McAdam, during the same period). A victory by Verizon would send a powerful message of encouragement to all other unionized employers are seeking "relief contract,''based on the balance sheets much less impressive than Verizon.In most workplaces, where wages, benefits and personnel policies may be changed unilaterally by management - without any prior discussion with the affected employees - non-union employers would also be emboldened to lower their standards of employment . On the other hand, if the work and general community support helps keep the strikers from Verizon a model contract, all workers in Massachusetts would have something to celebrate Labor Day, for the first time in a long time. The CWA has successfully organized strikes against Verizon in 1983, 1986, 1989, 1998 and 2000.In 2000, Verizon workers struck for 18 days, costing the company about $ 40 million. Clearly, this action has the ability to inflict damage. But Verizon has been slowly whittling away at its labor unionzed for some time. Unionized employees increased from 75000 to 45000 since the last walkout. Labor in non unionzed Verizon is over 150,000, which could make it easier for Verizon to weather the storm, this time.

Multinational companies and global human resource strategies

Historic Documents of 1998

Going global, unions and globalization in the United States, Sweden, and Germany

Ford and the global strategies of multinationals, the North American auto industry

S.A.M. advanced management journal