Opel Unions Show United Front

Last week, Opel's labor representatives complained that GM does not want to negotiate with them. Now it's the unions that don't want to talk. Today, labor representatives  of eight countries sent Opel CEO Karl-Friedrich Stracke a letter. The letter consisted of only one sentence, written in eight languages: "We will not negotiate with you on a local level." The tight-lipped missive follows plans by GM management to close the plants ion Bochum and Ellesmere Port, and to export jobs to low cost countries. The unions have a different version: GM wants to play the individual sites against each other. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Opel's production chief Peter Thom had confronted each site with a catalog of demands. Sites that do not agree to these demands could find themselves out of work. Jobs and sites are safe through 2014. The unions are not under time pressure. GM however needs to stop the bleeding of money ASAP. from The Truth About Cars http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com

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