Harley Shaiken
Harley Shaiken
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When you have a defined contribution, it puts more of the risk onto the recipient, ... If insurance costs go up, that means that your coverage is affected.
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This was difficult for the union to do, but the union is being pragmatic. Its goal is to preserve jobs. It realizes the severity of the situation that GM is in.
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Both sides have an interest in settling this. Nobody wants a strike.
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For Chavez, Fox is a surrogate of the United States in Latin America. For Fox, coming on against Chavez is low-cost, since he's in his last year (in office), weakened at home ... . Standing firm on anything offers him possible gains.
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For a plant closing of this magnitude, the overall impact is somewhere between traumatic and devastating.
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It's unclear if it's a route to a better job or to a more educated unemployment.
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The next step will be the permanent replacement of mechanics and cleaners. That is what Northwest will announce sooner rather than later.
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The notion of a buyout as large as 20,000 workers would go a long way toward settling the Delphi situation.
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Economic growth in the United States in the 20th century was based on building entrances to the middle class, from Henry Ford in 1913 to strong unions in the '50s and '60s.
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Everyone on the picket line who thought they could be out of a job for good will be out of a job for good.
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It's another sign of the tension that is enflaming this strike. GM is just pushing the UAW here, tweaking them.
gm pushing sign tension
It's another sign of the tension that is enflaming this strike, ... GM is just pushing the UAW here, tweaking them.
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It's going to have significant impact on the companies and on the industry. It is a painful option for the union but it is the best option of those available.
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It's certainly representative of the discontent that's out there. The retirees are frustrated, but I don't think it represents a major threat yet.