Articles Tagged with ''labor relations''

LEBANON, OH—The lockout of 174 workers at automotive supplier Hayashi Telempu’s assembly plant here will enter its 11th week on Monday.

THUNDER BAY, ON—Trades workers and assembly line workers at Bombardier’s railcar assembly plant here are now on strike.

PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa—GM has suspended production at its assembly plant here due to strikes at component suppliers.

LEBANON, OH—Auto parts manufacturer Hayashi Telempu North America has locked out some 200 unionized workers at its assembly plant here.

TOKYO—Toyota, its parts makers and dealers are pushing back on union proposals to increase wages for workers in Japan.

On Nov. 13, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) overwhelmingly rejected a contract offer from Boeing that would have kept manufacturing of the company’s new 777X jet in Washington state. 

DES MOINES, IA—Firestone has reached a tentative agreement with the United Steelworkers Union covering workers at the tire manufacturer’s factories in Iowa, Arkansas, Illinois and Tennessee.

SEOUL, South Korea—Hyundai Motor Co. has filed a police complaint against 13 labor activists it says led a violent clash at its biggest assembly plant that caused $2 million in damage and left approximately 100 people injured.

ERIE, PA—An all-day bargaining session failed to produce an agreement aimed at heading off the elimination of 950 union jobs at GE’s century-old locomotive manufacturing plant in northwestern Pennsylvania.

WEST POINT, GA—Four people who unsuccessfully applied for jobs at the Kia Motors assembly plant here are suing the company, claiming they were discriminated against because they had belonged to a union.