General Motors Corp. is pushing union locals across the country to accept money-saving factory work rule changes or risk losing future vehicle production work.
Working off a set of standards GM calls its "True North" practices, GM leaders have been visiting plants to push for changes that range from getting workers to take on more jobs to outsourcing work not directly related to building vehicles.
GM's goal is to make its plants fully competitive with those of its Japanese rivals in the United States.
"The corporation is telling the international and local unions that if changes are not made, they will be unable to compete with our competitors," United Auto Workers leaders in Lordstown, Ohio, wrote in a recent newsletter to members.
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