UAW Convention Focuses On GM Strike In Las Vegas
In Las Vegas the UAW gathers for its 32nd constitutional convention as 15 percent of its GM members are idled in two plants. Delegates expect to reelect Stephen Yokich despite ongoing strikes. the event centers union strategy amid GM’s Mexico and overseas expansion and U.S. job downsizing concerns.
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Las Vegas
United Auto Workers
General Motors
UAW
Stephen P. Yokich
Yokich
Sean McAlinden
University of Michigan
Flint
Mich
Mexico
U.S
America
Richard Shoemaker
United Auto Workers-Ford
Las Vegas Convention Center
GM UAW talks stall as 100000 workers idled in Flint
In Flint Michigan General Motors and the United Auto Workers pressed a three week long strike with about 9200 workers at the Flint Metal Center and Delphi East complex. The walkouts halted North American production and spurred roughly 105500 layoffs across 16 states plus Mexico and Canada. The dispute centers on staffing levels health and safety and outsourcing. Analysts note job security for U S workers and cost cuts as essential to GM's competitiveness.
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Lear Corp
Ford
Chrysler
United States
UAW
Harley Shaiken
University of California, Berkeley
Nissan
Tennessee
Flint, Mich
General Motors
United Auto Workers Union
Flint Metal Center
Delphi East Complex
Delphi East
States
Mexico
Canada
U.S
Dozens Rush to Rescue Elderly From Burning Nursing Home
Dozens used hands and feet to break windows and pull sick and elderly residents from the Lake County Rehabilitation Center in East Chicago Ind after a weekend fire. Two residents were in critical condition and 15 in fair condition from smoke inhalation as neighbors carried about 40 to 50 bedridden residents to safety. Assistant Fire Chief Peter Bianchi credited the community with preventing a greater tragedy.
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Chicago
Ind
Lake County Rehabilitation Center
Peter Bianchi
Japanese learn gospel at Harlem workshop
In Harlem Memorial Baptist Church a trio of Japanese visitors led by Terrance Kennedy joined a three hour gospel workshop. Akiko Namba from Osaka trained the choir to sing Come on in This House and He Has Done Marvelous Things while translator Takeshi Oguda aided the mostly non English speaking group. Parishioners welcomed the visitors with hugs as Rev Preston Washington Sr blessed the exchange and the tourists paid 30 dollars for the session.
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Genevieve Brown
Harlem
Iat Baptist Church
Brown
Akiko Namba
Osaka
Namba
Terrance Kennedy
Tommy Tomita
Harlem Connection Inc
New York City
Tomita
Tokyo
Takeshi Oguda
Japan
Oguda
Tommy
James Ford
Memorial Baptist
Preston R. Washington Sr
Kennedy
Chiaki Morishima
Morishima
Chiba
Manhattan
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