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GM, Delphi Pacts Come Down to Wire
IUE-CWA is gearing up for intense bargaining with General Motors Corp. and auto parts supplier Delphi. The GM contract, affecting 4,000 members, expires Nov. 17. The Delphi pact, covering 11,000, is up Nov. 15.
A union survey identified job security, new jobs and outsourcing restrictions as members' top concerns, along with retiree and pension issues. The union's national negotiating committee submitted initial proposals to both companies in August. Pacts reached by the United Auto Workers set a pattern that will affect IUE-CWA bargaining.
"We are interested in what the pattern is, but we have proposals for both companies that are unique to our situation," IUE-CWA President Ed Fire said. "This round of bargaining is not about concessions, but about gains."
There's No Sweet-Talking the NLRB
Two years to the day after Chinese Daily News workers appealed to the National Labor Relations Board to force their anti-union employer to honor their vote for TNG-CWA representation, staff of The Newspaper Guild-CWA in Washington, D.C., delivered a "birthday" cake to the NLRB's Washington headquarters.
Staff members Kathy Mulvey and Kathleen Price talked their way through several layers of security before a public information officer refused to accept the cake or let them go any further.
Mulvey, director of contract administration for the Guild, told the woman that the cake - which read "Happy Birthday" in Chinese - was a way of reminding the NLRB that the workers voted for union representation 2-1/2 years ago, and that the appeals were submitted to the board on Sept. 17, 2001.
Meanwhile, unfair labor practice complaints are mounting as the company continues a pattern of harassing, intimidating and even firing employees who are union activists. Management refuses to recognize TNG-CWA Local 39521 as the representative of the workers, let alone bargain a fair first contract.
IUE-CWA is gearing up for intense bargaining with General Motors Corp. and auto parts supplier Delphi. The GM contract, affecting 4,000 members, expires Nov. 17. The Delphi pact, covering 11,000, is up Nov. 15.
A union survey identified job security, new jobs and outsourcing restrictions as members' top concerns, along with retiree and pension issues. The union's national negotiating committee submitted initial proposals to both companies in August. Pacts reached by the United Auto Workers set a pattern that will affect IUE-CWA bargaining.
"We are interested in what the pattern is, but we have proposals for both companies that are unique to our situation," IUE-CWA President Ed Fire said. "This round of bargaining is not about concessions, but about gains."
There's No Sweet-Talking the NLRB
Two years to the day after Chinese Daily News workers appealed to the National Labor Relations Board to force their anti-union employer to honor their vote for TNG-CWA representation, staff of The Newspaper Guild-CWA in Washington, D.C., delivered a "birthday" cake to the NLRB's Washington headquarters.
Staff members Kathy Mulvey and Kathleen Price talked their way through several layers of security before a public information officer refused to accept the cake or let them go any further.
Mulvey, director of contract administration for the Guild, told the woman that the cake - which read "Happy Birthday" in Chinese - was a way of reminding the NLRB that the workers voted for union representation 2-1/2 years ago, and that the appeals were submitted to the board on Sept. 17, 2001.
Meanwhile, unfair labor practice complaints are mounting as the company continues a pattern of harassing, intimidating and even firing employees who are union activists. Management refuses to recognize TNG-CWA Local 39521 as the representative of the workers, let alone bargain a fair first contract.