David Cole
David Cole
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More than anything it tells the UAW that their bargaining power is gone. The market is defining wages and benefits of the future and the best they can hope for is to work collaboratively with the companies to survive.
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More than anything it tells the UAW that their bargaining power is gone, ... The market is defining wages and benefits of the future and the best they can hope for is to work collaboratively with the companies to survive.
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The auto industry of the future will be a younger and more educated workforce. High-paying jobs for educated workers are not going away.
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With what happened, I think things are on hold. This is not a permanent decision. It's in abeyance right now until they can be more confident in the work force. The Japanese model is one of a higher level of visible collaboration between labor and management.
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There's a history of people commuting for good jobs in Maine, ... We're a mobile state because of our rural nature. To make it work as a car pooler, you need to be able to link up with people in similar situations. And the higher the price of energy, the more incentive there is to car pool. An organization like Go Maine helps find that needle in the haystack.
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Details are still being worked out, but the point is that we're turning this disappointing situation into a positive new program that will benefit Rutgers as a whole. We hope that by setting up a committee of members of the University community who would interview potential nominees for the Rutgers Board of Governors and advise the governor on which candidates are most friendly to Rutgers, we can encourage greater communication between the state and Rutgers.
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As DOT we would like to do it all - have rails and have trails, too. But we have to work with the resources we have. And we have limited funding.
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The market out there is so fragmented and volatile right now that it's very hard to predict what will work and what won't.
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We saw resistance to the initial Korean cars, but that was mainly related to quality. If the quality (of Chinese cars) is up to snuff, if the consumer feels there's value, they'll go for it.
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It wouldn't surprise me. We've seen some definite refocusing away from California.
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It wouldn't surprise me, ... We've seen some definite refocusing away from California.
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The wild card is whether consumers are really going to come out in the holidays for the Xbox 360 or just wait for Sony next year.
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The risk is that consumers are ready to go to buy a system and then you give them a chance to have second thoughts about it,
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Each cycle of console launches, the companies have a fresh start. Microsoft will likely do better with the Xbox 360.