A painful lesson: Flint strike showed labor-relations model had to change

摘要

Pivot Point: UAW relations bottom out in 1998. The 1998 UAW strike at General Motors' Flint stamping operations was a disaster for the company. The 56-day strike shut all of GM's North American assembly plants. It cost the automaker about 500,000 vehicles and USD2.8 billion in net losses. But both sides learned a valuable lesson: They resolved not to let mis-communication and intransigence cause another meltdown.