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This doesn't sound like a formula for success. American Axle & Manufacturing Inc., long considered the most successful of former General Motors Corp. parts operations, now is mired in an ugly labor dispute while the market for its products is shrinking...

Declining union membership is not limited to the United States. It's happening north of the border as well. At Canadian automotive assembly plants, 100 per cent of workers 20 years ago belonged to unions...

Is this the new face of the UAW? According to a news release from the UAW, dealers at Foxwoods casino in Connecticut voted Saturday in favor of union representation. I'm wondering exactly how this helps the UAW...

The way you make money in poker is not to try and win every pot, but to lose less when you lose, and win more when you do win. And there will come a time that you have a lay down a very good hand because of the way things have played out. The UAW's ratification of their contract with Ford was sort of like that...

It's a simple question. How long is it going to hurt? With the product and job cuts announced and Chrysler, and the cuts that seem certain at Ford, the Free Press reports that analysts agree that the U.S...

36 straight hours of negotiation and a tentative agreement is reached between the UAW and Ford. Now comes the hard part, ratification. The deal creates a union administered trust to mange retiree healthcare benefits just like the previous two deals at GM and Chrylser...

The agreement between the UAW and Chrysler was ratified by a narrow margin on Saturday morning.  UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said in a statement. "Now we're going to come together as a union -- and now it's on the company to move ahead, increase their market share and continue to build great cars and trucks here in the U.S." Chrysler Vice Chairman and President Tom LaSorda said, "We are pleased that our UAW employees recognize that the new agreement meets the needs of the company and its employees by providing a framework to improve our long-term manufacturing competitiveness." Is everybody happy? The company definitely got a bottomline boost as the agreement shifts the healthcare burden to the union administered trust, and the two-tier wage system reduces their labor cost and should help Chrysler be more competitive...

It appears that the UAW leadership may have succeeded in getting the deal with Chrysler ratified although the UAW has not claimed victory yet and officials at Chrysler LLC aren't talking about the voting that, until Wednesday night, looked too close to call. But not everyone is singing a victory song. Harley Shaiken, a labor expert from the University of California, Berkeley told the Detroit Free Press, "The early plants had the opportunity to express anger...

Today's a critical day in the voting on the agreement between the UAW and Chrysler. Eight locals representing an estimated 16,300 workers have rejected the deal since voting began last Thursday. At least nine locals representing about 11,200 workers have accepted the agreement...

Rank and file voting on the agreement between the UAW and Chrysler ends this week and Chrysler is sweetening the pot a bit as the outcome remains in doubt. The vote tightened Sunday, as two sites with 4,600 employees voted more than 3-1 in favor, while one plant with 2,200 workers rejected it by a smaller margin. Bill Parker, president of Local 1700 and chairman of the UAW's national bargaining committee, has emerged as the first and most vocal opponent of the proposed labor agreement with Chrysler...