Business Notes: Aug. 26, 1985

AUTOS "Lee Got His. We Want Ours"

Not since 1982 have negotiators for the United Auto Workers and Chrysler squared off for comprehensive contract talks. When U.A.W. President Owen Bieber and Tom Miner, Chrysler's vice president of labor relations, shook hands last week to open new negotiations, the circumstances were very different from those surrounding the earlier talks. In 1982 Chrysler was just starting to come back from a brush with bankruptcy, its veins full of bailout money. Today the company is robust, its sales up and Government-backed loans of $1.2 billion paid off.

Mindful of Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca's compensation...

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