UAW President Says His Union Now Rejects Adversarial Approach

United Auto Workers President Bob King, opening contract talks with U.S. automakers next month, said the union is no longer an adversary and seeks to cooperate with management.

“The public is looking at us now to see if we’ve learned anything from the crisis or if we’ll return to business as usual,” King said today during a speech at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island in Michigan. “The 21st century UAW views management not as an adversary and the enemy, but as a partner.”