Marketplace, October 12, 2011, Wednesday

Marketplace

October 12, 2011, Wednesday

Marketplace (full article)

Chrysler reaches tentative deal with UAW

I talked to Alex Colvin -- who's a professor of labor negotiations at Cornell -- about this. He says part of the problem has been the relative financial health of the companies involved.

Alex Colvin: To the degree that Ford was the one you'd look from the union perspective as the richest target, in a way. Chrysler is probably the weakest target here.

So that is that, Ford theoretically has the most to give, while Chrysler has the least.