GM Faces Sunday Night Strike Deadline in UAW Contract Talks
- Union said it will terminate contract at 11:59 p.m. Sunday
- 'The experience of the bankruptcy was searing for both sides'
United Auto Workers President Dennis Williams speaks to delegates at the UAW Special Convention on Collective Bargaining at Cobo Center March 25, 2015 in Detroit, Michigan.
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The United Auto Workers is expected to take contract talks to the brink of a strike deadline Sunday night with General Motors Co. and ultimately reach a deal that is similar, though somewhat richer, than the four-year pact it recently negotiated with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV.
“There’s always the possibility of strike, it’s never an idle threat,” said Harley Shaiken, a labor professor at the University of California at Berkeley. “But I think they will find a way. The pressure of a deadline will force both sides to confront the fact that they have to compromise.”