Flex-N-Gate

NLRB likely to certify UAW to represent Flex-N-Gate workers at Texas plant

3:48 pm U.S. ET | May 10, 2013
The National Labor Relations Board likely will issue a certification today confirming the UAW as bargaining representative for hourly workers at a Flex-N-Gate Corp. plant in Arlington, Texas.... Read More »

 

Flex-N-Gate workers at Texas plant vote to join UAW

12:01 am U.S. ET | May 6, 2013
After a contentious organizing drive, hourly workers at a Flex-N-Gate Corp. plant in Arlington, Texas, voted last week to join the UAW. The bumper supplier, which has more than 12,000 employees at 59 sites worldwide, has been a high-profile target of the UAW.... Read More »

 

Flex-N-Gate workers in Texas vote to join UAW

4:10 pm U.S. ET | May 2, 2013
Hourly workers at a Flex-N-Gate plant in Arlington, Texas, voted to join the UAW on Wednesday. Of the 73 employees eligible to vote, 51 voted in favor of union representation and 22 opposed, the National Labor Relations Board said today. The NLRB conducted the election.... Read More »

 

UAW's King juggles diversification, southern strategy

2:18 pm U.S. ET | March 5, 2013
UAW President Bob King says he has finally begun to stem the decades-long membership decline in one of America's most powerful labor unions, but his goal of organizing at least one foreign-owned automaker in the South continues to elude him.... Read More »

 

UAW rallies for Flex-N-Gate employees

12:01 am U.S. ET | Feb. 18, 2013
UAW members and supporters rallied Wednesday, Feb. 13, at a Flex-N-Gate plant in Warren, Mich., and elsewhere to bring attention to what the union cites as mistreatment of workers and lagging wages and benefits.... Read More »

 

UAW presses Flex-N-Gate on wages, worker treatment

8:40 pm U.S. ET | Feb. 13, 2013
UAW members and supporters rallied Wednesday at a Flex-N-Gate plant outside of Detroit and other company facilities to bring attention to what the union cites as mistreatment of workers and lagging wages and benefits.... Read More »

 

UAW steps up organizing drive at Shahid Khan's Flex-N-Gate

4:22 pm U.S. ET | Feb. 12, 2013
The UAW, stepping up its organizing efforts at auto supplier Flex-N-Gate, plans rallies at seven of the company's plants Wednesday to highlight what the union contends is mistreatment of workers at the supplier's nonunion operations.... Read More »

 

2012: THE YEAR IN PHOTOS

Days in the life

12:01 am U.S. ET | Dec. 24, 2012
Tributes, protests, fund raisers, artists and a practical joke are all things we remember about this year.... Read More »

 

FINAL ASSEMBLY

CBS' Khan story sidesteps controversy

12:01 am U.S. ET | Nov. 5, 2012
CBS' poignant "60 Minutes" profile of Shahid Khan, the Pakistan-born billionaire who owns supplier Flex-N-Gate and the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, avoided the nonfootball topics that have put Khan in the news this year: his stormy relations with the UAW and environmental activists.... Read More »

 

STATE OF SUPPLIERS

UAW turns up the heat on Flex-N-Gate

12:01 am U.S. ET | Aug. 6, 2012
Tthe UAW and its allies used the NFL draft to turn up a corporate campaign and organizing drive directed at the new owner of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, Shahid Khan, who also owns U.S. auto supplier Flex-N-Gate.... Read More »

 

NFL team owner Khan targeted by UAW effort to organize his parts plants

12:01 am U.S. ET | July 4, 2012
The UAW and its allies used the NFL draft in April to turn up a corporate campaign and organizing drive directed at the new owner of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, Shahid Khan, who also owns Illinois-based auto supplier Flex-N-Gate. The UAW is trying to organize workers at 13 Flex-N-Gate plants in seven states.... Read More »

 

Ford sells ACH lighting operations in Ohio to unit of Flex-N-Gate

3:56 pm U.S. ET | May 30, 2012
Ford 's Automotive Components Holdings unit reached an agreement to sell its headlamp and taillight business to Ventra Sandusky, a unit of Flex-N-Gate. The sale includes a plant in Sandusky, Ohio, which will operate as Ventra Sandusky. Under the deal, Ventra Sandusky will also operate ACH's automotive lighting service parts operation in Bellevue, Ohio.... Read More »