{"id":324757,"date":"2017-09-06T04:12:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T03:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/iam-isolates-striking-chicago-car-mechanics-seeks-separate-agreements\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T04:12:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T03:12:39","slug":"iam-isolates-striking-chicago-car-mechanics-seeks-separate-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/iam-isolates-striking-chicago-car-mechanics-seeks-separate-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"IAM isolates striking Chicago car mechanics, seeks separate agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>\u201cWe don\u2019t know what kind of deal they\u2019ve struck with the breakaway dealerships\u201d<\/h4>\n<h2>IAM isolates striking Chicago car mechanics, seeks separate agreements<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Jessica Goldstein<br \/>\n    <br \/>5 September 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Chicago-area auto mechanics, members of the International Association of Machinists Local 701, have been engaged in a bitter five-week strike against the New Car Dealership Committee (NCDC), which bargains for more than 100 Chicago-area dealerships. Rank-and-file mechanics are striking for better pay and working conditions, more efficient training programs and to beat back the dealership\u2019s demands for givebacks on pension and health care benefits.<\/p>\n<p>The mechanics on the picket lines remain militant in spite of intimidation tactics by the dealerships, but throughout the struggle, the IAM has worked to keep the nearly 2,000 mechanics isolated. It now appears that the union is seeking agreements with individual dealerships to weaken the unity of workers and pressure them to capitulate to management\u2019s terms.<\/p>\n<p>NCDC has accused the IAM of illegally soliciting deals with individual dealerships outside of the multi-employer agreements. On its website, the NCDC condemns the deals, saying it will take legal action against the union to stop the individual deals and \u201creturn to the bargaining table and negotiate in good faith to resolve this strike for everyone, not just a select few.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The union has responded to this on its page by denying solicitations of individual deals. Instead, it claims some dealerships have broken with the NCDC and have asked the union to work something out with them individually to end the strike. On August 31, the union wrote that it defends its right to \u201cselectively picket or not to picket dealers at its discretion\u201d and \u201cmany of our members will&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/09\/05\/mech-s05.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cWe don\u2019t know what kind of deal they\u2019ve struck with the breakaway dealerships\u201d IAM isolates striking Chicago car mechanics, seeks separate agreements By Jessica Goldstein 5 September 2017 Chicago-area auto mechanics, members of the International Association of Machinists Local 701, have been engaged in a bitter five-week strike against the New Car Dealership Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}