David Cole
David Cole
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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What they're really looking at is the long-term implications of this. In the past, there was a decidedly short-term mentality, and basically what (GM) would say is we'll settle so we can meet our quarterly profit projections. That's different today. The financial community is concerned about the short-term return?but what they're focused on is the long-term profitability.
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What they're really doing is taking their divisions and shrinking their number in a de facto way.
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We're just in experimental phase right now. As long as we're in that type of phase, it's a crazy time. You know we'll get there (profitability) and get there fast. But the ideas that are not out there yet, and the companies that will be behind them, might be the real winners.
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We're in a time where the clock is moving much more quickly on GM. I think they're fortunate to have Jerry because this thing is going to be played out in the next six months, not the next five years.
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We've got a real disconnect right now between our market and our educational system.
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This will not be the only company where you're going to see this kind of comment.