Chrysler, he said, is seeking a way to link executive compensation and the profit-sharing payments that workers receive.

He continued to denounce the way that the Americans' profit-sharing payments to the Saudis were worked out.

Union members are already unhappy that G.M. executives will be paid bonuses this year, even though 1986 earnings were too low to provide profit-sharing payments.

That year G.M. workers received profit-sharing payments averaging $328.

The contract gives the 1,000 workers a 45-cents-an-hour wage increase, and reduces profit-sharing payments to 25 cents from 45 cents.

Under the current plan, G.M. workers received no profit-sharing payments for 1986, despite the company's earnings of $2.9 billion.

He also disclosed that profit-sharing payments to hourly workers were unlikely.

There is no annual profit-sharing payment, an incentive that some newer airlines have set up.

The General Motors Corporation announced earlier that its workers would receive profit-sharing payments of $50 for 1989.

Ford said its 1988 profits would generate $460 million in profit-sharing payments, or more than $2,800 per employee.