Job Security to Top UAW’s Contract Talks

The United Auto Workers will demand that General Motors Corp. provide a job to every active and laid-off union member during the next three-year contract, according to a bargaining blueprint.

The 91-page document, a copy of which was obtained Monday by Associated Press, lays out details of union demands for its negotiations covering about 272,000 hourly employees at the world’s largest auto maker.

Talks open June 23. The current contract, as well as pacts at Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp., expire Sept. 14.

Job security dominates the UAW’s contract proposals to GM, which has ordered the most permanent layoffs of the Big Three auto makers. GM plans to close 23 factories and eliminate 74,000 jobs by 1995.

GM’s proposals for the union are not expected to be known until much closer to the opening of talks.

Highlights of the UAW job security resolutions:

* GM must not eliminate any jobs during the period of the agreement.

* The agreement must cover members who worked under the 1990 contract.

* One worker must be hired for each retiree, up from one hire for every two retirements in the current contract.

* Recall laid-off workers and hire new workers instead of scheduling excessive overtime.