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Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Jeff Gilbert with WWJ 950 AM had a chance to talk to UAW President Ron Gettelfinger just minutes ago after a meeting with UAW local heads on reexamination of their contracts (including nixing of the Jobs Bank , as we'd predicted) with the not-so-Big Three. Gilbert asked him what he'd be doing next. His response? He's heading to the airport tomorrow morning. That's right, while the CEOs of each...
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Offshore Services (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
The UAW has agreed to suspend the Jobs Bank program and allow the Detroit 3 to delay making payments to a retiree health care trust in 2010 to help the automakers through their cash crisis, UAW President Ron Gettelfinger said. ..
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Detroit News (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Ron Gettelfinger, the powerful yet soft-spoken president of the United Auto Workers, was honored by the Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund of Detroit as the 2008 Goodfellow of the Year at the charity's 19th Annual Tribute Breakfast on Friday, Oct. 24.
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger was due to address the media at 11:15. The news conference has been delayed and freep.com will bring you the live video as soon as it begins.
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Workplace Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Just in time for the second congressional hearing with the big-three automakers CEOs, the UAW has offered to make substantial concessions if part of a government rescue plan. The UAW's president, Ron Gettelfinger, has long been willing to work with...
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Fox News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The prepared remarks submitted by the auto industry workers union's President Ron Gettelfinger before the Senate Banking Committee
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Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | yesterday
The prepared remarks submitted by the auto industry workers union's President Ron Gettelfinger before the Senate Banking Committee Image:...
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Firedoglake (Free subscription) | yesterday
Listening to the insufferable Bob Corker of Tennessee hector Ron Gettelfinger in the auto industry hearings is getting hard to take. He's demanding that the UAW screw over its pensioners because their reluctance to sacrifice the fund they paid into over a lifetime is somehow making them uncompetitive, and says that Republicans will be happy to give the companies money on the condition that they...
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........Scattershot........ (Free subscription) | yesterday
While everyone's casting stones at the Big-Three for their profligate ways, the UAW's Ron Gettelfinger wonders why state and local governments are funding foreign automakers in direct competition with their American counterparts: Since 1992, states where we have transplants have located have put in over $3 billion dollars in incentives and I would point out that is the money that the state...
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Just Auto (Free subscription) | yesterday
Congress cannot fix the US Big Three automakers' woes in a week and the pain of the economic downturn needs to be shared evenly, United Auto Workers president Ron Gettelfinger on Thursday told a Senate Banking Committee hearing submissions for $34bn in federal loans.
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Townhall.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger is now making the case to the Senate that because Citigroup was bailed out earlier this year Detroit needs to be as well."If the government can provide this type of blank check to Wall...
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The Curious Capitalist (Free subscription) | yesterday
The CEOs of the Detroit Three have successfully navigated the roads between Michigan and Washington, D.C., in their hybrid vehicles, and arrived at the hearing room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. UAW chief Ron Gettelfinger is there too, but I'm assuming he was sensible enough to fly Northwest. It's their second try at pleading [...]
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Leslie Carbone (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United Auto Workers, has said that his labor union was prepared to offer two concessions in order to boost the Detroit Three's chances of bilking the taxpayers out of around $34 Billion. Yesterday. After the Detroit Three submitted their written pleas for money other people have earned. And what are those so-called concessions? First, the UAW would allow the...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | yesterday
TORONTO, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The head of the Canadian Auto Workers union says he completely backs concessions offered by the United Auto Workers union in the United States. Speaking in Toronto, CAW President Ken Lewenza said he supported UAW President Ron Gettelfinger's decision Wednesday to temporarily give up the jobs bank at General Motors, Chrysler and Ford to avert potential bankruptcies,...
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QandO (Free subscription) | yesterday
T he UAW is finally stepping up to the table and announcing its willingness to make concessions to help the Big 3 automakers avoid bankruptcy. Of course it is predicated on the government extending them loans. At a news conference in Detroit, the U.A.W.’s president, Ron Gettelfinger, said that his members were willing to sacrifice job security provisions and financing for retiree health care...
