Workers at troubled Van Nuys GM facility elect backers of Japanese-style management.Workers at troubled Van Nuys GM facility elect backers of Japanese-style management A slate of candidates backing Japanese-style "team management" at the troubled General Motors Corp. assembly plant in Van Nuys won 15 of 19 union offices, a spokesman for the slate said Friday. The results represent an endorsement of the cooperative philosophy espoused by Jerry Shrieves, president of United Auto Workers The United Auto Workers (UAW), headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, officially the United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America International Union Local 645 at the plant, which builds Firebirds and Camaros but has a cloudy cloudy (clou´de) 1. murky; turbid; not transparent. 2. marked by indistinct streaks. future. The issue of support for the management-backed team concept has been the focus of battles within the UAW (spelling) UAW - Misspelling of "IAW"? nationwide for several years. Opponents believe that the idea, which calls for teams to work cooperatively on entire sections of cars and make suggestions to improve productivity, reduces job security. The Van Nuys workers first backed "team concept" in 1986 by a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent. In the election June 20-21, Shrieves was re-elected with 1,534 votes, beating Pete Z. Beltran, a former Local 645 president who headed a slate calling for less concessions to management by workers at the plant, the spokesman said. About 75 percent of the 4,000 UAW members eligible to vote cast ballots. A runoff Runoff The procedure of printing the end-of-day prices for every stock on an exchange onto ticker tape. Notes: If the "tape is late" then it can take a long time to print off all the closing prices. will be held Wednesday for office of vice president between Jess jesse, jess a leather strap placed around each shank of a hawk used for hunting, for the attachment of a leash. Pacheco of the Shrieves slate and Jake Flukers of the Beltran slate, as neither received a majority. Pacheco got 1,063 votes and Flukers had 1,011. The campaign between the slates focused on the future of the plant, the only remaining auto assembly Founded in 2000 by Sven Harvey, Auto Assembly is a TransFormers event that is held in Birmingham, UK and run by the science-fiction fan organisation Infinite Frontiers. The first convention was held in October 2000 and has been held annually, except in 2002 and is again taking a facility in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . The plant's viability was thrown into doubt last year when GM announced that when it introduced the next generation of the Camaro and Firebird, the assembly of these cars will be moved to its plant in St. Therese, Canada. That move could take place as early as 1992. GM has not said what its plans are for the Van Nuys plant, but is has said that it is considering converting it to a "flex" facility, which would be able to build a number of different models, depending on demand. The uncertainty over the plant's future was heightened in April by the disclosure in news stories of an internal GM report, which showed that the Van Nuys facility had the highest defect rate of more than 30 GM plants in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . However, GM insisted that the report also reflected customer perceptions of vehicle problems and denied that it ranks plants by defect rate. Union members alleged that the report had been deliberately leaked by management to lay the groundwork for closing the plant. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion