Harley Shaiken
Harley Shaiken
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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 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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They're going to try to make an argument that simply cutting wages, slashing benefits, etc., is not the only way to go. Whether the bankruptcy judge buys that remains an open question.
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They're getting their message across before bargaining begins in earnest. Showing a lot of visibility and political clout means bargaining will be influenced by not just what happens at the table but what happens in the community.
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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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What we're looking at in Seattle is a debate over the rules of the game and how the environment and labor will be treated -- whether they will be debated elsewhere or whether they will become part of the core discussions about trade.
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What's new about the global economy is First World productivity combined with Third World wages. That can create some real downward pressure on high-wage countries.
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If you cut wages by two-thirds, that creates a class of people that can't afford to go to Wal-Marts. If other industries do this, America will have a far smaller middle class, and the whole economy in the 21st Century begins to unravel.
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He's taken a windy day and turned it into a hurricane. Labor is influential in Sacramento. On certain bills and issues, they are very influential. But they are one of many groups that can dominate.
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Both sides have an interest in settling this. Nobody wants a strike.
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This really is a wake up call to Wal-Mart that these class action suits in front of a jury can be costly.