The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, January 13, 1982-Page 3, I GM labor cost savings would benefit consumers DETROIT (AP) - The United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. agreed yesterday that any labor cost savings won by the No. 1 automaker in current talks would be passed on to consumers as lower car prices, UAW President Douglas Fraser said. "There will be no concessions to General Motors as such," Fraser said. "GM benefits from this agreement in the sale of more cars," which in turn will mean more jobs for UAW members. GM CHAIRMAN Roger Smith said the company "welcomes the UAW's historic proposal." "We are prepared to respond to significant reductions in labor costs with equally significant reductions - beginning immediately - in the con- sumer prices of all new GM cars and trucks sold in the United States," Smith said. The agreement also calls for "equality of sacrifice" among GM's salaried and hourly employees in any wage and benefit reductions, Fraser and Smith said. FRASER SAID union representatives made the same proposal to Ford Motor Co. yesterday afternoon but the proposal had not yet been accepted by, Ford. The agreement was part of a "framework and set of principles" ac- cepted by both sides as a basis for talks on a reopened contract and both sides said no specific concessions have been agreed to. Negotiations on possible contract concessions were to resume today at 10 a.m., Smith said. Fraser and Smith said the agreement includes provisions to hire an indepen- dent certified public accounting firm to ensure that consumers will reap the benefits of any concessions granted by the union. Smith said cost savings from a new contract will be applied to all GM cars sold after midnight yesterday. The savings per vehicle sold will be com- puted and returned to consumers, most likely in the form of rebates, Smith said. IF NO concessions are negotiated between the UAW and GM, yesterday's proposal would be moot, Fraser said. Meanwhile, the Reagan ad- ministration cast a gloomy shadow on the auto industry's unemployed by predicting yesterday that about half of the 214,000 auto workers now on in- definite layoffs probably will never see their old jobs again. Robert Dederick, assistant secretary of commerce for economic affairs, said that even when the industry recovers, there will be 550,000 fewer jobs than just four years ago. ASKED BY reporters what the outlook is for those now on the layoff rolls, Dederick replied, Half will go in- to other jobs." Dederick indicated that the ad- ministration is holding to its position that the "revitalization of the auto in- dustry depends upon revitalization of the entire economy" and that automakers should expect little special attention. AP Photo TexasIce Old man winter struck as far south as Texas yesterday, with a rare ice storm that weighted down this chain and the flowers behind it. Elsewhere, the record-setting cold wave that had killed 92 people snarled traffic and severely damaged Florida's citrus crop. Farmer's Market needs renovation CORRECTION Because of a typographical eror, a story in yesterday's Daily on students protesting U.S. training of Salvadoran troops said 40 people attended a rally last March commemorating the death bf Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. The number should have read 400. By PERRY CLARK The Farmer's Market is falling apart and needs an $800,000 repair job, a member of the Farmer's Market Commission told City' Council Monday night. Patricia Kemph said the Market, located at the corner of Fifth and Detroit. streets, has reached a crossroads. "Serious repairs are facing us if we don't go ahead with this development plan," she said. A CITY Planning Commission report issued last November projected the cost of the improvements at $500,000, but Kemph said the figure is closer to $800,000. The proposed changes would expand the Market area, improve auto cir- culation and pedestrian pickup points, provide an indoor area, and replace the aging stalls with a new steel structure and -metal roof. Street trees, benches, and improved parking areas may also be added. The Council, will decide later this month whether or not to ask city voters to approve a millage issue to finance the project. KEMPH estimated that about one- third of the Market's customers are students. Many foreign students request vegetables from their homelands, which the farmers than start producing, she said. Also Monday night, City Council ap- proved May Louis Belcher's appoin- tment of Robert Henry to represent the city. in a lawsuit over ward redistric- ting: Democrats on the Council objected to the appointment of Henry, who is chairman of the Washtenaw County Republican Party. Belcher, also a Republican, had proposed to pay Henry $5,000 to handle the lawsuit, an amount which became the main source of debate. Opponents of the redistricting plan claim the proposal is the result of. gerrymandering by the Republican members of the Washtenaw County Apportionment Commission. The pew ward plan, effective from 1982 to 1990, would determine the voting districts for elections of the County Board of Com- missioners. University of Michigan Applicants to the Physical Therapy Curriculum for Fall Term 1982 This is a reminder that supplementary applications for the Physical Therapy Curriculum must be com- plete and filed by February 1, 1982. Pre-Physical Therapy students who have attained Sophomore status or above may pick up applica- tions at: Undergraduate Admissions Office 1 220 S.A.B. (Behind LSA Building) 8:30-1 2:00 and 1:00-4:30 After Dec. 1, 1981 FRATERNITY ____RUSH MASS MEETING JAN.13 7:00 PM Pendleton Room Michigan Union Sponsored by Inter Fraternity Council pp1 HAPPENINGS- HIGHLIGHT The Michigan Daily will offer two mass meetings this evening for students interested in joining the staff. Reporters and editors will be ready to tell all about the Daily at 6:30 p.m. in West Quad's Wedge Room, and at 8 p.m. in Markley's North Pit. FILMS Cinema Guild-Hamlet, Lorch Hall, 6:30,9:30 p.m. Cinema II-Woman in the Dunes, Angell Hall Aud. A., 7, 9:15 p.m. CFT-Last Tango in Paris, Michigan Theater, 4,7,9:30 p.m. SPEAKERS Academic Women's Caucus-Lec., William G. Moller, "Affirmative Ac- tion & the School of Bus. Ad.," 3050 Frieze, noon. wcbn-"radio Free Lawyer: Discussion of Legal Issues," 88.3 FM, 6 p.m. Meekreh-"Falashas: The Forgotten Jews," Multi-Media Program in Mo- Jo Lounge, 7:30 p.m.. J Communications-Brown Bag Sem., Scott Poole, "New Directions in Group Decision-Making," 2050 Frieze, noon. Chem. Eng.-Lec., James 0. Wilkes, "Introduction to Digital Com- puting," FORTRAN IV Programming Language-I, Nat. Sci. Aud., 7:30 p.m. Nursing-Lec.; Nina Abrams, "Discrimination in the Workplace," SPH I Aud., 7 p.m. Computing Center-Lec., Forrest Hartman, "Intro to Display Ter- minals," MLB, B114, 7 p.m. MEETINGS WCBN-News Mtg., CBN Newsroom, 7 p.m. Lacrosse Club-Mtg., CCRB, Rm. 2230, 7.p.m. UM Students to Elect Ted Pierce for Governor Meeting, Union, Kuentel Rm., 8 p.m. Commission for Woman-Mtg., 2549 LSA, noon. Sci. Fi Club-Mtg., "Stilyagi Air Corps," Ground Fl. Conf. Rm., Union, 8:15 p.m. UJA-Mtg., Anderson Lounge, E.Q., 6:30 p.m. Botticelli Game Players-Mtg., Dominick's, noon. PERFORMANCE School of Music-Faculty Violincello Recital, Jerome Jelinek, J.S. Bach solo suites No. 2 in d minor, Recital Hall, 8 p.m. UACLaugh Track-Comedian Van Gunter, the University Club, 9 p~m. 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