Agreement Still Eludes GM, Auto Workers
Pressure increased Sunday on the United Auto Workers to strike General Motors as around-the-clock negotiations failed to produce agreement on a new contract two days after a strike deadline passed.
Bargaining continued into the night, extending a marathon session that started Saturday at 9 a.m. as the two sides haggled over ways to protect the jobs of some 300,000 GM workers.
The decision by UAW leaders to ignore the midnight Friday strike deadline had little meaning until today, when the workweek begins at about 240 GM sites in 33 states.
The union leadership is scheduled to meet today with about 30 local union leaders, some of whom are calling for a walkout.
The UAW’s caution contrasts with its 12,800 Canadian counterparts whose separate auto workers union struck Ford of Canada after failing to reach a new agreement Friday night.
