national
Canadian workers
nix Chrysler offer
United Press International
DETROIT — Striking Cana
dian auto workers rejected a
Chrysler Corp. wage-hike prop
osal and said it isn’t enough to
convince them to settle their
month-long strike by Chrysler
Chairman Lee lacocca’s Tues
day deadline.
UAW President Douglas
Fraser said counter-offers were
to be made in both the United
States and Canada on Tuesday
to wage-increase offers made by
Chrysler late Monday.
Fraser said the offer made to
U.S. workers didn’t meet UAW
objectives, but could be used as a
base for discussion.
But Canadian union bargain
ers speedily rejected the auto
maker’s bid outright and said it
was so unacceptable that
chances for a settlement before
midweek appeared dim.
“It comes nowhere close to
what it will take to reach a settle
ment,” Canadian UAW Director
Robert White said of the wage
offer. “We are literally miles
apart. If they think the workers
will cave in for this proposal,
Chrysler has misread the situa
tion.”
A settlement must be reached
to meet a deadline set by lacoc-
ca, who said the 9,600 striking
Canadians had to be back on the
job by next Monday for produc
tion to start up again for
Christmas.
The contract dispute has to be
resolved to allow for a period of
explanation and a Canadian
ratification vote. Unless that is
accomplished, Chrysler has
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vowed to farm out the struck
Canadian work to U.S. facilities.
The company offers came in
late afternoon main-table bar
gaining sessions that followed a
day of subcommittee meetings
on non-economic issues.
Fraser said the offer covering
43,000 U.S. workers, while slim,
is better than the company’s ori
ginal contract rejected by work
ers in October. That pact was
turned down because it tied in
creases in pay to future Chrysler
profits.
The U.S. offer also is for two
years, Fraser said. The union
originally had wanted a one-
year contract covering economic
issues because of the uncertainty
surrounding the future of
Chrysler and the auto industry.
A two-year pact benefits
Chrysler in that it can plan what
its labor costs will be over a lon
ger period of time.
U.S. workers have been work
ing under an extension of their
old contract.
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