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The United Auto Workers union is pushing Chrysler to sell 16.6 per cent of its stock to investors in an attempt to establish the value of the shares. The UAW is currently locked in a lawsuit with Chrysler parent company Fiat over how much the Italian automaker should pay to buy shares from the ...

As much as Chrysler would like to "move on," it seems that the story of employees who drink on the job just refuses to die. The latest? According to Fox 2 News in Detroit, the 13 workers who were fired in 2010 after its cameras caught them drinking alcohol and smoking what looks to be marijuana ...

Last month, we brought you the latest news in a rather tenuous ordeal between Fiat and the United Auto Workers over the future of the Italian automaker's stake in Chrysler. The union contended that Fiat failed to make an adequate offer for the 3.3 per cent stake that was sought. Fiat offered ...

Sergio Marchionne, CEO of both Chrysler and Fiat, has stated that the planned unification of both companies will have to wait a little longer as the Italian automaker grapples with the European financial crisis. Marchionne has previously stated that the goal was to achieve unification as early as ...

After seeming to be at an impasse as late as this morning, the Canadian Autoworkers union and Ford have reached a tentative agreement with just hours to go before the CAW's work stoppage deadline. The deal that has been agreed upon will run for the next four years and cover around 4,500 Canadian ...

How would you respond to the headline "No More Auto Workers Union"? Well, we'll likely be bidding goodbye to the Canadian Auto Workers Union, as the membership has agreed to merge with Canada's Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union. The Vancouver Sun is reporting that a unanimous vote of ...

Honda of Canada Manufacturing in Alliston, Ontario, is unique in providing an employee recreation centre with an NHL regulation-size hockey arena. But it could soon have another claim to notoriety: The first Japanese auto plant to go union. According to Ward's Auto, Canadian Auto Workers President ...

Hyundai, one of the largest employers in the American state of Alabama, has been urged by a group of 15 civil rights organizations and labour unions, including the United Auto Workers and NAACP, to help overturn Alabama's immigration law. The law was put into effect in September of 2011, and it ...

First, let's put some salient numbers on the table: 5.5 million versus 2.7 million and $67.14 per hour versus $33.77 per hour. The first set of numbers belong to Germany, and represent the total number of vehicles built in 2010 and the average wage of an autoworker in that country. The second ...

The United Autoworkers Union (UAW) is struggling – and it is the first to admit it. With its membership dwindling after three decades of workforce cuts by Chrysler, Ford and General Motors, the union has pinned its future on organizing one of the transplants. Efforts to convince workers at ...