By Doug Cunningham

The UAW says International Truck and Engine, makers of Navistar heavy trucks, is still making unreasonable proposals at the bargaining table that would erode wages and benefits for the 4,000 striking UAW members at the company. The UAW has filed unfair labor practice charges against ITE with the National labor Relations Board because the company decided on its own to eliminate supplemental unemployment benefits and other benefits that are legally supposed to be mandatory issues for collective bargaining. ITE has nine plants in six states. The company is shifting production at a UAW Ohio plant to non-union facilities in Mexico and Texas.