Labor & Management Relations

• GM, UAW agree on deal that could end plant strike
  AP ( 15, 2008)
  DETROIT (AP) - General Motors Corp. and a local union agreed Thursday on contract terms that could end a monthlong strike at a Michigan plant which makes some of GM's hottest selling vehicles.
   
  
• Canadian Auto Workers union, GM agree on contract
  AP ( 15, 2008)
  TORONTO (AP) - The Canadian Auto Workers union and General Motors Corp. tentatively agreed to a new labor contract on Thursday and union President Buzz Hargrove said they are close to a deal with Chrysler LLC.
   
  
• Jobless claims up in sign of further weakness
  AP ( 15, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of newly laid off workers applying for unemployment benefits rose slightly last week, indicating the weak economy was still weighing on the job market.
   
  
• House panel approves pay raise for troops
  AP ( 15, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Armed Services Committee approved a bill early Thursday that authorizes $601.4 billion in defense spending for next year, including a 3.9 percent pay raise for troops.
   
  
• Toyota says new US auto plant delayed
  AP ( 12, 2008)
  TOKYO (AP) - A senior Toyota executive said Monday that plans for a new auto assembly plant in Mississippi are being delayed by worries about slumping American auto sales and a broader U.S. economic slowdown.
   
  
• GM to pay up to $200M to help end American Axle strike
  AP ( 009, 2008)
  DETROIT (AP) - A bitter, 10-week strike at auto parts supplier American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings Inc. could end soon now that General Motors Corp. has agreed to kick in up to $200 million to help settle the dispute, industry analysts said.
   
  
• Diageo brews Irish Guinness overhaul
  AP ( 009, 2008)
  DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Guinness beer owner Diageo PLC rattled an Irish icon Friday, announcing plans to lay off more than half of its brewery workers, close two breweries and shift most beer production to a new, high-tech plant in the Dublin suburbs by 2013.
   
  
• Congressman seeks probe of Utah mine collapse
  AP ( 008, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - A leading House Democrat wants federal prosecutors to open a criminal investigation into the deaths of nine people in a Utah mine collapse last year.
   
  
• Dan Rather files amended lawsuit against CBS over his firing
  AP ( 008, 2008)
  NEW YORK (AP) - Dan Rather has filed an amended lawsuit against CBS that says other TV networks refused to hire him because of the damage executives at his former company did to his reputation after a disputed 2004 report on President Bush.
   
  
• Jobless claims post sharp decline
  AP ( 008, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of newly laid off workers seeking unemployment benefits dropped much more than expected last week.
   
  
• Worker productivity up at 2.2 percent rate in first quarter
  AP ( 007, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Worker productivity rose by a better-than-expected amount in the first three months of the year while labor cost pressures eased.
   
  
• Hollywood producers suspend talks with Screen Actors Guild
  AP ( 007, 2008)
  LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hollywood producers on Tuesday temporarily broke off contract talks with the Screen Actors Guild, calling its demands regarding DVD sales and online content "unreasonable."
   
  
• Chrysler's Nardelli says company can meet job-cutting goals
  AP ( 006, 2008)
  AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) - Chrysler LLC Chairman and Executive Bob Nardelli said Monday the automaker should be able to meet its job-cutting goals without antagonizing the United Auto Workers.
   
  
• Impasse at GM's Fairfax - workers walk over seniority issues
  AP ( 005, 2008)
  KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - Members of a United Auto Workers union local went on strike Monday at General Motors' Fairfax facility - hitting a plant that churns out GM's popular Malibu sedan.
   
  
• Canadian auto workers ratify 3-year Ford contract
  AP ( 005, 2008)
  TORONTO (AP) - The Canadian Auto Workers have voted to ratify a three-year contract with Ford Motor Co.
   
  
• Deadline extended for transportation worker secure ID cards
  AP ( 002, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration will delay a post-9/11 program that provides special identification cards to every worker with access to seaports.
   
  
• Employers cut fewer jobs in April, jobless rate falls
  AP ( 002, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Employers cut far fewer jobs in April than in recent months and the unemployment rate dropped to 5 percent, a better-than-expected showing that nonetheless reveals strains in the nation's labor market.
   
  
• Western ports return to normal after workers' war protest
  AP ( 002, 2008)
  LOS ANGELES (AP) - West Coast ca
   
  
• Economists predict employers will cut jobs again
  AP ( 002, 2008)
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The country is bracing for more bad news on the jobs front. In advance of Friday's employment snapshot from the Labor Department, economists were predicting that employers cut jobs yet again in April. That would mark the fourth straight month of job losses. The unemployment rate, now at 5.1 percent, is expected to edge up a notch.