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 DETROIT (AP) - United Auto Workers union leaders said Friday they are increasingly concerned about gas prices and how they'll affect the Big Three automakers. But the union was mum on the subject of what it might do to help lower soaring labor and health care costs.
UAW President Ron Gettelfinger refused to speculate on the outcome of ongoing negotiations with General Motors Corp. and its former parts division, Delphi Corp. GM wants the UAW to help it lower health-care costs before its contract expires in 2007, while Delphi chairman and chief executive Robert S. Miller says Delphi will consider filing for bankruptcy this fall unless it works out a deal to lower its costs.
"I'm not sure if he's overplaying his hand or not," Gettelfinger said of Miller's comments. "It will take us some time to work our way through that."
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