American Axle, the lies of Corporate Culture

[DainBramaged]

http://www.aam.com/index.php?s=24

"AAM CORE VALUES - founded on and committed to:

Integrity – people, product, and financial
Ethical behavior in all that we do
Engineering, manufacturing, operational excellence, quality and warranty performance
Serving the needs of our customers, associates, stockholders and other stakeholders
Teamwork, training, technology & building trust (??????)
State-of-the-art technology
At AAM, our goal is to be the best by working together."


UAW members fight for jobs at American Axle

http://www.uaw.org/news/newsarticle.cfm?ArtId=467

UAW members on strike at American Axle said today they are fighting to preserve good-paying U.S. manufacturing jobs at the company.

“Our union is a responsible organization, and we’ve worked through complex problems at Chrysler, Ford, GM, Delphi, Dana and other companies,” said UAW President Ron Gettelfinger. “But negotiations can’t be a one-way street.” “We have repeatedly proven that we will work with this company, during these negotiations and during previous negotiations,” said UAW Vice President Jimmy Settles, who directs the union’s American Axle Department.

“The plain fact is, the company has not appropriately responded to our significant and serious proposals, and that’s what caused this labor dispute,” said Erv Heidbrink, president of UAW Local 2093, representing some 800 UAW members at American Axle’s manufacturing facility in Three Rivers, Mich. “Nobody likes a strike,” said Heidbrink, “but the company continues to make unreasonable and unnecessary demands which attack our wages, pensions and health care – and they haven’t provided us the information we need to evaluate their proposals.

“Our members are getting terrific support from all over the UAW and we’re standing strong,” said Heidbrink. “We’re ready for serious bargaining at any time, and we want to get this dispute resolved as soon as we can.” American Axle was created in 1994 when GM spun off five U.S. plants making axles and drive line components, employing approximately 6,500 UAW members.

Since 1994 industry-leading quality and greatly increased productivity in UAW-represented facilities has created significant profits for AAM, leading to expansion of the company to 29 facilities worldwide. But operations at facilities in North America covered by the UAW American Axle master agreement have been reduced, now employing approximately 3,500 workers.

These people at American Axle are only interested in shareholder value, not quality production by Union trained employees who bring value and commitment to the job every day.

[Omaha Steve]

1. This type of fight is happening all over the USA

I wish them the best of luck.