United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger said Tuesday that the union isn't willing to accept more overtures by cash-strapped Detroit automakers to delay payments to a trust fund that will take over retiree health care costs in 2010. Full Story »
Posted by Kristin Gorski
This blurb by the AP highlights another possible casualty of the souring U.S. economy: the automotive union's health care trusts. The piece needs much more balance in viewpoints and stakeholders, and additional sourcing and links, to make it complete. However, the piece is relevant and timely and hints at a couple of significant trends: the American auto industry based in Detroit continues to hurt, and even largely protected union benefits may be jeopardized because of deepening, country-wide economic difficulties.
