Breaking: UAW workers seen walking off the job

[RB TexLa]

DETROIT (AP) Chrysler autoworkers seen walking off the job after a union deadline passed with no tentative agreement.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15147430&ft=1&f=1001

UAW Deadline Passes for Strike Against Chrysler

NPR.org, October 10, 2007 · Several key issues in labor negotiations between the United Auto Workers union and automaker Chrysler LLC remained unresolved Wednesday ahead of a late-morning strike deadline.

The two sides were negotiating a new contract throughout the night at Chrysler's headquarters in Auburn Hills, Mich.

The UAW set an 11 a.m. deadline for an agreement, or have about 49,000 workers leave their jobs at 24 U.S. factories and other sites.

In a memo to local union leaders, the UAW said it would stop extending its contract with Chrysler at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, but that deadline passed with no announcement from the UAW. The contract was supposed to expire Sept. 14 but has been extended since then.

[madrchsod]

1. the plant near here is on shutdown for two weeks

so no thing happening there...chrysler has a 71 day inventory so they can go a month or so without producing cars. it`s the suppliers that are going to get hurt in this deal..

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Here's CNN's story on it....

http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/10/news/companies/chrysler_uaw/index.htm?cnn=yes

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- More than 31,000 members of the United Auto Workers union struck Chrysler LLC Wednesday morning, after marathon labor talks between the union and the money-losing automaker failed to avert the industry's second strike in two weeks.

The strike affects 19 manufacturing plants and 22 other facilities, spread across 14 states. The only facilities not subject to the strike are five assembly plants that Chrysler had already scheduled to be shut down due to excess inventory of the vehicles that they make. Those plants employ another 13,500 hourly workers.

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