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DETROIT (AP) - United Auto Workers President Ron Gettelfinger kicked off his union's bargaining convention Tuesday with a warning for companies: Just because we've cooperated in the past, don't take that as a sign of weakness.
In a speech at the start of the two-day national bargaining convention in downtown Detroit, Gettelfinger said the union will fight companies at the bargaining table, in politics and "if need be on the picket line."
Addressing 1,500 members from multiple industries who will help set the union's overall bargaining priorities, a defiant Gettelfinger said the union does not want to strike, but will if necessary.
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