GM - Auto Workers Saturn contract.

From: Monthly Labor Review | Date: October 1, 1985| Author: | Copyright information

In a development that could influence labor-management relations elsewhere in the automobile manufacturing industry--and possibly in other industries--General Motors Corp. (GM) and the United Auto Workers (UAW) agreed on an innovative contract for the company's new Saturn automobile subsidiary. The possibility that the innovations in the Saturn agreement will be extended to other settlements was downplayed by GM and the UAW, which described the Saturn accord as a "special case" all-out attempt to overcome the cost advantages of Japanese and other foreign small car producers. ...

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