Major Breakthroughs on Sourcing
Insourcing Opportunities Enhanced
Your negotiating team improved the local unions’ ability to develop competitive business plans to insource work to their plants. With the UAW’s upfront involvement in product and vehicle development, and the corporation’s responsibility to provide all pertinent information, local unions will have a significant opportunity to insource work.
Future Product Sourcing Process Improved
The parties discussed the union’s concern for receiving information relative to future vehicle programs earlier in the development cycle. Management will provide the UAW with overview information relative to vehicle programs as they pass through the Architectural Statement of Strategic Intent milestone (ASSI) for new vehicle architectures or Program Framing Initiated milestone (PFI) for mid-cycle enhancements.
Improved Information Sharing
The UAW expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of meaningful input into certain sourcing directions being contemplated by the corporation.
The International Union will now be notified when a new manufacturing process is contemplated in order to assess potential impact on UAW members at GM.
Online Appendix L Training
The parties agreed to develop an online training module for Appendix L (Sourcing) to better assist local union jobs committees with implementing Appendix L of the National Agreement. This training will be required for the GM Global Purchasing and Supply Chain group and certain engineers responsible for sourcing activities.
Sourcing Database Update
To ensure timely resolution of Appendix L (Sourcing) issues, the parties agreed to update the current sourcing database using an online system. This will make it easier to input Appendix L notice information at the plant level. All local unions will now have access, along with appropriate International Union representatives.
Business Review Team
Your bargaining team won a new and improved Business Review Team (BRT) process that affords the union early access to key corporate manufacturing representatives at the earliest stages of General Motors Vehicle Development and Product Development Processes.
The BRT’s primary role is to oversee development of resolutions to future vehicle program sourcing issues by mutual agreement or through the use of the Net Present Value Workbook.
Gaining access to appropriate management personnel from all the corporation's divisions early in the GM Vehicle Development Process affords UAW-represented workers improved job security through prevention of outsourcing.
A key component to the BRT is the close interaction between members of the BRT and the study plant’s Local Jobs Committee in order to understand the production processes used to generate financial inputs for potential Net Present Value Business cases.
Such interaction further strengthens the UAW's ability to defend existing work and potentially grow the business by insourcing new work opportunities that cannot be resolved by the manufacturing chief engineer.
Members of the BRT include UAW sourcing staff representatives, UAW future product sourcing representatives, the GM manufacturing chief engineer responsible for the vehicle program being studied, as well as the manufacturing manager and program manager for North American Manufacturing Stamping and Powertrain Divisions.