UAW President Pledges to Put Automakers on ‘Defensive’ in Talks
- Union meets ahead of summer negotiations over contracts
- Labor boss vows reforms after officials implicated in scandal
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The leader of the United Auto Workers struck a fiery tone in advance of contract negotiations with the three major U.S. automakers, promising to go on the offensive while also expressing contrition for a corruption scandal that has engulfed his union.
The union has a “bargaining strategy that puts the auto companies on the defensive,” Gary Jones, the UAW’s president, said at a press conference following the union’s three-day bargaining convention in Detroit. “We’ll take this fight to them and we’ll use every last ounce of our leverage. Every last ounce.”