The General Motor also known as GM, is a United States-based automaker with its headquarters in Detroit, Michigan.
On September 24, 2007, GM workers represented by the United Auto Workers union went on the first nationwide strike against the company since 1970. The ripple effect of the strike reached into Canada the following day as two car assembly plants and a transmission facility were forced to close. Overnight a tentative agreement was reached, however, and UAW officials declared the end of the strike in a news conference at 4 a.m. on September 26. By the following day, all GM workers in both countries were back to work.
A new labor contract was ratified by UAW members exactly one week after the tentative agreement was reached, passing by a majority 62 percent vote. In the contract are several product and employment guarantees stretching well into the next decade. One of GM's key future products, the Chevy Volt, was promised to the GM Poletown/Detroit-Hamtramck plant in 2010. Also included is a VEBA (Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association) which will transfer retiree health care obligations to the UAW by 2010. This eliminates more than $50 billion from GM's healthcare tab. It will be funded by $30 billion in cash and $1.4 billion in GM stock paid to the UAW over the next four years of the contract. It also eliminates 70 percent of the labor cost gap with GM's Japanese rivals.
A strike at American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. will result in lost production of an additional 230,000 vehicles in the second quarter, with an estimated $1.8 billion impact on earnings before tax, and a total strike cost of $2.81 billion.
Together with the UAW, GM created a joint venture dedicated to the quality of life needs of employees in 1985. The UAW-GM Center for human resources in Detroit is dedicated to providing GM salaried employees and GM UAW members programs and services related to medical care, diversity issues, education, training and tuition assistance, as well as programs related to work and family concerns, in addition to the traditional union-employer health and safety partnership.
A general strike refers to a strike of workers in all the industries. This is commonly referred to as a mass strike where the participants are from all over the country.
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The United Automobile Workers (UAW).
The first general student strike in US history happened in the 1970s. It was due to the invasion of Cambodia.
it succeeded because of aid provided by progressive groups such as the Women's Trade Union League.
The General Strike was created in 2011-06.
The Winnipeg General Strike happened in, of all places, Winnipeg. In fact, that's why it's called the Winnipeg General Strike.
the general strike happened because lots of miners were locked out and campaigned
Pennsylvania. The general strike was the Whiskey Rebellion.
A general strike was held in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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The General Strike of 1926 lasted ten days in the United Kingdom.
Peter Kidd has written: 'The Winnipeg general strike' -- subject(s): General Strike, Winnipeg, Man., 1919
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