When Ford and General Motors announced that they wanted to review the payment of pensions to their former employees (see our dispatch No. 120391), the United Auto Workers (UAW) decided to appoint one of their financial specialists on the board of Chrysler. With degrees in math, economics and business, Eric Perkins had been advising unions on economic issues and unionization strategies for about 10 years when he joined Bob King’s team at the head of the UAW in 2010. A research director, he notably took part in the negotiations for the new collective agreements in the auto industry last year (see our dispatch No. 110613).
ined Bob King’s team at the head of the UAW in 2010. A research director, he notably took part in the negotiations for the new collective agreements in the auto industry last year (see our dispatch No. 110613).
Appointed for three years at the same time as Ruth Simmons, President of Brown University, already a member of several boards (e.g. Princeton or Texas Instruments), Perkins is coming after the man who organized the group’s first financial rescue in 1979, former Michigan governor James B
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