Auto Worker Talks Continue Past Deadline

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Associated Press

By DEE-ANN DURBIN and TOM KRISHER

DETROIT (AP) - Negotiations between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. (GM) continued past a midnight deadline, a local union leader said early Saturday as GM workers across the nation prepared for a possible strike.


A U.S. flag and the United Auto Workers flag fly at the UAW Local 5960 in Orion, Mich., Friday, Sept. 14, 2007. As UAW union members prepared for a possible strike Friday against General Motors Corp., analysts said a short-term walkout probably wouldn't cause too much financial pain but could hurt the automaker's launch of some critical 2008 vehicles. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)


Chris "Tiny" Sherwood, president of UAW Local 652 at a Cadillac plant in Lansing, Mich., said he received a call around midnight from UAW leadership in Detroit telling him to wait for another hour.

"Hang in there. Give us an hour, they're still talking," Sherwood said the official told him.

The contract was extended one hour, said Glenn Johnson, vice president of UAW Local 1112 at a sprawling GM assembly complex in Lordstown, Ohio, near Cleveland. About 100 people waited at the union hall for instructions shortly after midnight.

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[nadinbrzezinski]

1. To the UAW workers I salute you

[LiberalFighter]

2. UAW workers always want to strike

They want their employers to suffer financially so they go out of business.

Then those employees can stop going to work for that company and find a job that doesn't pay as well and have fewer rights.