Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, August 26, 1994 TAG: 9408260059
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: DETROIT LENGTH: Short
The vote was 778-34, said officials at GM's Inland Fisher Guide plant in Anderson, Ind., where 3,500 workers struck for two days.
The Indiana plant produces bumpers, exterior lights and light-control parts used by the 13 assembly plants, which produce some of GM's hottest-selling vehicles and shut down when they ran out of parts.
Officials said the parts plant were to resume operations starting with Thursday night's third shift.
``We were after the jobs and that's what we got,'' Ron Gettelfinger, director of Region 3 of the UAW and a chief negotiator, had said prior to the announcement. ``It didn't matter what the product line was, we just wanted the jobs. We want to do good quality work for General Motors.''
The strike occurred Tuesday after bargainers failed to settle disputes over local issues, including GM's transfer of work from the plant to outside contractors.
GM spokesman John Shea said ratification of the agreement would mean the factory could be back in production today, but the assembly plants probably would be idle until sometime next week. The plants build models including full-size pickup trucks and the new Chevrolet Luminas and Monte Carlos.
Thursday's settlement might not head off additional plant closings, because it would take a couple of days to refill the parts pipeline.
by CNB