Union leaders to get details
Local presidents to meet on Ford deal
November 5, 2007
BY SARAH A. WEBSTER
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
UAW officials from local chapters that represent Ford Motor Co. workers nationwide are to meet in Dearborn today to learn the nitty-gritty details of the new tentative labor deal reached with the automaker, according to local union [...]

GM boss urges stock vote limits
Wagoner asks SEC to raise threshold on what shareholders can propose.
Monday, November 5, 2007
David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner has urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to make it more difficult for small stockholders to put shareholder proposals up for [...]

UAW gives Big Three chance at reinvention
Now management must complete their transformation to become fully competitive.
 
Monday, November 5, 2007
Daniel Howes

Whoever said Detroit’s automakers and the United Auto Workers couldn’t shed decades of dysfunction, distrust and denial to craft collective bargaining agreements that could potentially transform the American auto industry might want to think again.
In just [...]

 
Ailing Ford gets deal that fits its needs
UAW agrees to less cash for retiree health care fund in exchange for plant investments
 
Monday, November 5, 2007
UAW-FORD AGREEMENT

Bryce G. Hoffman and Daniel Howes / The Detroit News
The tentative agreement between Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers departs in significant ways from the union’s deals with [...]

Key terms of Ford’s contract with the UAW
Monday, November 5, 2007
Here are some of the terms of Ford’s contract with the UAW and how they compare with the details of the UAW’s agreements with General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC.
• Retiree health care: Ford will be required to put up substantially less cash than GM [...]