1982 Contract includes profit sharing, guaranteed income stream, halt to plant closings and company-funded training programs. Workers strike for seven days at select GM plants. JOBS bank created, giving workers training or nontraditional work instead of layoffs. 1990 Workers get 3-percent base pay increase. Automakers agree to a minimum job guarantee, agreeing to keep UAW employment levels at 95 percent of total at the end of 1996.
Union agrees to allow new hires in parts plants to be paid at a lower wage than existing workers.
UAW stages 54-day strike at GM parts plants in Flint over outsourcing of work.