Press Release

UAW and GM Will Build Detroit Education and Training Center

09/19/96

UAW and General Motors to Build New Education and Training
Center inDetroit


DETROIT, Sept. 17 -- The UAW International Union and
General Motors Corporation plan construction of a new
300,000 square-foot joint education and training center to be located
in downtown Detroit. The announcement was made today during a news
conference conducted by Detroit Mayor Dennis W. Archer, GM Chairman
John F. Smith, Jr., and UAW Administrative Assistant Richard
J. Monczka.

The new facility, which is anticipated to be opened in 1998, will be
built at a site to be determined near the UAW's Solidarity House
headquarters and the new General Motors World Headquarters in the
Renaissance Center. It means that the UAW-GM Center for Human
Resources, which develops and administers joint education and training
programs between the union and the automaker, will relocate its
present facilities from Auburn Hills and Royal Oak.

"We are very proud to announce that we will be moving our joint
activities and joint-activity staffs to the City of Detroit," said UAW
Vice President Richard Shoemaker and GM Vice President Gerald
A. Knechtel. "With the co- location of our people and new facility, we
believe we will be better able to create joint education and training
programs which meet the needs of the men and women of the UAW and
General Motors. We are looking forward to working with Detroit Mayor
Dennis Archer and helping boost the city's revitalization and
development efforts," Shoemaker and Knechtel added.

Currently, the UAW-GM Center for Human Resources has two separate
buildings in Auburn Hills and one in Royal Oak where teams of labor
and management representatives work side-by-side developing and
administering a variety of joint activities. Such programs include
specific-job training, health and safety, product quality, tuition
assistance, retirement planning, employee assistance, child care and
elder care. A total of 323 people work at the combined facilities
including 146 UAW representatives, 53 GM representatives and 124 other
professional and clerical employees.

Since 1984, the UAW and General Motors have committed more than $2
billion toward joint education, training and retraining programs and
activities. More than 213,000 UAW-represented workers at some 112 GM
plants and warehouses are now provided opportunities to gain new
skills and knowledge to reach their full potential, both on and off
the job. Each year, thousands of workers come to the Detroit area from
throughout the United States to receive training.