Reuters (via Toronto Star): Union to strike if Chrysler talks stall, feature Professor David Gregory

October 09, 2007

The United Auto Workers union has set a deadline of tomorrow morning to reach a new contract with Chrysler LLC and has threatened to strike if a new deal for almost 49,000 U.S. employees is not reached by that time.

Chrysler's UAW workers are likely to be still skeptical of Cerberus' intentions and wary of the potential for it to pull back from its U.S. manufacturing operations, said David Gregory, professor of labour law at St. John's University.

"I think there's going to be real apprehension here on the part of the union," he said.

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