Automakers, unions work on health BY CRAIG TORRES and KEITH SNIDER, BLOOMBERG
In another era, Geoffrey Schick and Ken Johnson might have clashed across a bargaining table. Schick, 33, is a health-cost specialist at DaimlerChrysler AG. Johnson, 54, is an autoworker focusing on benefits for UAW Local 72.
Today, they share an office at the 1,400-worker DaimlerChrysler engine plant in Kenosha, Wis., allies in a ground war against health expenses that are eating away every dollar the factory saves in hard-won productivity gains.