LABOR - LOCAL UNION ACTIVITY
Firms with Organized Union Affiliations
| IAC/Lear Corporation |
United Auto Workers
(As of July 1997 - see note below) |
| Buzzi Unicem |
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers |
| Oxford Automotive |
United Auto Workers (30+ year relationship)
Plant closed in March 2005 due to corporate
bankruptcy. |
| Union Elections |
|
|
|
| Year |
Number |
Wins |
Firm |
| 1991-1995 |
1 |
0 |
HAPPICO in 1993 |
| 1996 |
0 |
0 |
Lear - Petition withdrawn - Vote expected to go against the union. |
| 1997 |
0 |
0 |
Lear - See note below. |
| 1998-2000 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2001 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2002 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2003 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2004 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2005 |
0 |
0 |
Oxford Automotive - Closed 3/05 |
| 2006 |
0 |
0 |
|
| 2007 |
0 |
0 |
Lear becomes IAC - 4/07 |
| 2008 |
0 |
0 |
|
| Work Stoppages |
|
|
|
| Year |
Number |
Days |
Firm |
| 1991-1995 |
0 |
|
|
| 1996-2000 |
0 |
|
|
| 2001-2005 |
0 |
|
|
| 2006 |
0 |
|
|
| 2007 |
0 |
|
|
| 2008 |
0 |
|
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NOTE: In July of 1997, Lear Corporation, as part of their corporate policy, allowed the UAW to organize their facility. No actual union election was held. The company offered a signing bonus to get a contract ratified due to lack of interest in union representation. At contract ratification, about one third of those eligible to vote cast a ballot with only about 70% of those voting in favor of the contract.
In April of 2007, Lear’s interior systems operations became International Automotive Components Group (IAC).