Citing worsening U.S. economic conditions, GM and Chrysler told the Obama administration Tuesday that the companies need at least an additional $14 billion in loans to survive. ...more

February 18, 2009

Festering animosity between the United Auto Workers and Southern senators who torpedoed the auto industry bailout bill erupted into full-fledged name calling Friday as union officials accused the lawmakers of trying to break the union on behalf of foreign automakers. ...more

December 12, 2008

Douglas A. Fraser, who led the United Auto Workers union through dark hours in the U.S. auto industry in the 1970s and '80s and was instrumental in the effort that saved Chrysler from bankruptcy, has died. He was 91. ...more

February 25, 2008

There was some dissent and a lot of questions, but in the end, local United Auto Workers leaders voted to recommend approval of a new four-year contract with Chrysler LLC that is similar to one ratified last week with General Motors Corp. ...more

October 16, 2007

Its years as the nation's largest employer a distant memory, General Motors may still be setting the trend for corporate-worker relations in shedding its obligation for the health care of 340,000 retirees. ...more

October 16, 2007

The United Auto Workers union reached a tentative four-year contract with Chrysler on Wednesday, hours after going on strike and the same day General Motors workers ratified a separate four-year pact. ...more

October 11, 2007

Local union leaders on Friday endorsed a tentative agreement between General Motors and the United Auto Workers that requires GM to pay at least $35 billion for retiree health care and offers an unprecedented number of promises for future work at U.S. plants, according to a summary of the agreement provided by the UAW. ...more

September 29, 2007

In the end, the first nationwide strike against General Motors Corp. in 37 years came because the United Auto Workers want something that GM will find difficult to promise: job security. ...more

September 24, 2007