{"id":134543,"date":"2019-03-12T18:35:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=134543"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:37:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T22:37:33","slug":"top-uaw-bargainer-takes-aim-at-general-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2019\/03\/top-uaw-bargainer-takes-aim-at-general-motors\/","title":{"rendered":"Top UAW Bargainer Takes Aim at General Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Terry Dittes, vice president of the GM Department for the UAW, said its time for GM to build more vehicles in the U.S.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The leader of the United Auto Workers responsible for negotiations with General Motors took aim at the automaker\u2019s Mexican production during a speech at the UAW Special Convention on Collective Bargaining in Detroit.<\/p>\n

Terry Dittes, UAW vice president in charge of union\u2019s GM Department, said in a report to the 900 delegates that roughly one third of the vehicles GM sells in the U.S. now come from Mexico and that will be a major issue in the UAW\u2019s upcoming contract talks with the automakers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDon\u2019t kid yourself there are more plants that may be in jeopardy as time goes on,\u201d\u00a0Dittes warned the delegates. \u201cThis is not a good will speech.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeneral Motors just announced that they made $10.8 billion in the United States. General Motors sells more vehicles in the United States than Ford or FCA.\u00a0General Motors\u00a0currently has 17.5%\u00a0market share, higher than Ford and FCA,\u201d Dittes said.<\/p>\n

(UAW raising strike pay ahead of Big Three negotiations. <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGeneral Motors\u2019 UAW employment is about 48,000 members. Over 7,000 of them are in skilled trades and more than 4,000 are temporary employees.\u00a0General Motors makes the most profits. They sell the most the most cars, trucks and crossovers. They\u2019ve been at the top of heap for many years.<\/p>\n

The converse is that Ford and Fiat Chrysler have fewer UAW members, Dittes noted. General\u00a0Motors, which sell the most cars in the U.S. does not build the most cars in the U.S.; that honor belongs to the Ford Motor Co. GM does in fact build one third of its vehicles in Mexico for the sole purpose of sending them to the United States for sale, Dittes pointed out.<\/p>\n

(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for\u00a0details about\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>UAW suing General Motors over plant closures.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBrothers and sisters you can see what we\u2019re up against when we open negotiations when this coming but I can tell you we\u2019re ready for the fights and I know you\u2019re ready for the fight and I know our membership is ready for the fight,\u201d\u00a0Dittes told the delegates. \u201cIt\u2019s time for us to stand. It\u2019s time for us to take what belongs to us and stand up for what we have,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dittes added the UAW faces a whole new set of issues during bargaining such as the use of temporaries and two-tier wages and erosion of skilled trades not to mention product\u00a0as well as GM\u2019s decision to shut plants In Lordstown, Ohio, Baltimore as well as in Detroit and Warren, Michigan, staffed by UAW members.<\/p>\n

(To see more about the UAW\u2019s efforts to reverse GM\u2019s decision to close plants,\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not quitting on that,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s time to stand up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The leader of the United Auto Workers responsible for negotiations with General Motors took aim at the automaker\u2019s Mexican production during a speech at the UAW Special Convention on Collective Bargaining in Detroit. Terry Dittes told members it was time to demand more from the automaker. Get details at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20009,"featured_media":127146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,13],"tags":[],"make":[41,43,45,58,59],"post-state":[],"category_old":[150,192,123,185,195,309,299,243,242,132,125,139,278,288,304,141],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134543"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=134543"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=134543"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=134543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}