Wednesday, March 14, 2012

UAW wins seat on Daimler board

It is working with IG Metall to create a more global union.

Little did Steve Yokich know the brightly colored Moslem prayer cloth hanging on the wall of his riverfront office at Solidarity House would so accurately forecast the future. A gift from an Arab-American organization, it is a prayer for a "world leader" written in Arabic. As president of the UAW, Yokich is closer to that station today, as the DaimlerChrysler merger slams home the UAW's new position as a major union in the first transnational automaker.

Initially, its place in the new company seemed a bit in question. But in a history-making agreement, IG Metall, the union representing German Daimler workers, …

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