By Melissa Burden, Michael Wayland and Michael Martinez
The extended Veterans Day holiday weekend in November — a tradition many United Auto Workers members since the late 1990s have used to kick off deer hunting season — appears to be coming to an end this year in favor of celebrating on the actual federal holiday.
As part of a new four-year contract with the UAW, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV’s 40,000 UAW members will be off on Nov. 11 — the national day of observance. That’s instead of a Friday or Monday around the federal holiday that correspond to the start of Michigan’s firearm deer hunting season — this year Nov. 15-30.
The holiday falls on a Wednesday this year. Over the next three years it falls on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday, so Fiat Chrysler members will end up with a three-day weekend anyway.
It appears others also could change to honor veterans. General Motors Co. and the union have discussed “a mutual desire to move to a federal holiday,” GM spokesman Pete Ternes said.
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