Harley Shaiken Gm Quotations

GM is sending signals about its priorities. The 2007 negotiations are going to be tough.

Historically, GM has been the most tone-deaf of the auto companies when it comes to labor issues. But York is speaking plainly and directly about critical issues between GM and the UAW.

This was difficult for the union to do, but the union is being pragmatic. Its goal is to preserve jobs. It realizes the severity of the situation that GM is in.

What GM gets in changes in the jobs bank is likely going to be based on compromises they are willing to make elsewhere. The fact that they are talking about this so early is unusual and shows how important it is.

It's another sign of the tension that is enflaming this strike. GM is just pushing the UAW here, tweaking them.

It's another sign of the tension that is enflaming this strike, ... GM is just pushing the UAW here, tweaking them.

The corporation knows the sensitivity of these kinds of issues, they have a lot of experience with what will provoke a local strike. What I suspect they (the GM management) didn't anticipate is that it would reach this intensity.

If GM actually did pursue this route?there would be a really poisoned atmosphere in the United Auto Workers plants where the parts are shipped.