Labor Adopts New Strategy

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Labor unions are increasingly focused on preserving jobs, demonstrating a new realism. Rather than demanding so much that companies cannot compete, unions are sometimes even accepting wage freezes, while holding out against major concessions on health benefits. Recent accords with Verizon and Goodyear include broad job security assurances, and United Auto Workers' accords with the Big Three allow for some plant closures in return for saving hundreds of thousands of other jobs.

Labor Relations, Employee Relations, Analysis, Innovations, Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Automobile industry, General Motors Corp., GM, Chrysler Corp., United Automobile Workers, Automotive industry, Labour relations

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Verizon Talks Are Less Upbeat As Union Cites Unresolved Issues

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Verizon Communications and its main labor union, the Communications Workers of America, continued its negotiations over unresolved terms for new contracts. Verizon insists on increasing employee contributions to health insurance costs and gaining control to dismiss employees at will. The company avoided a Sunday strike of 78,000 workers as discussions continued into their seventh day.

COMMUNICATION, Communications, Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Telecommunications services industry, Telecommunications industry, Communications industry, Verizon Communications Inc., VZ, Communications Workers of America

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