Friday, March 6, 2009
Ron Gettelfinger: Labor Voices
Gettelfinger: Auto loans help keep U.S. jobs
American cars still matter, creating more employment than competitors

Last week’s financial results and this week’s sales figures show that the U.S. auto industry still faces serious financial challenges.
As the Obama administration considers whether to provide additional loans to GM and Chrysler, the UAW [...]

Friday, March 6, 2009
Daniel Howes
Commentary: General Motors admitting bankruptcy risk is no surprise

Now is it real?
Now do the skeptics, the deniers and the deluded understand that General Motors Corp., the archetype of 20th-century American industrial power, truly is facing the kind of existential threat that reshapes lives, fortunes and communities if the worst is realized? [...]

Friday, March 6, 2009
3 locals say no to Ford concessions
Most rank-and-file votes so far back deal; Saline plant workers among dissenters.
Louis Aguilar / The Detroit News
Ford Motor Co. workers at three United Auto Workers locals rejected concessions to their national labor contract Wednesday, according to union sources, but a majority of rank-and-file members who have [...]