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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GM is sending signals about its priorities. The 2007 negotiations are going to be tough.
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Labor is in some pretty tough rapids right now.
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I think what we are looking at here are exit roads from the middle class.
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I think this case is, in fact, a watershed. I think what it does is -- in the most dramatic way we've seen to date -- it introduces the wages of the global economy into Main Street in Michigan, Ohio and elsewhere,
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I suspect they felt that taking a very hard line would send a message to the union. Instead the message that they sent was to dig in your heels.
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I suspect they don't want to strike, but they could be pushed into a corner, and if that's the case they have considerable leverage,
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Historically, GM has been the most tone-deaf of the auto companies when it comes to labor issues. But York is speaking plainly and directly about critical issues between GM and the UAW.
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The pain and surprise may come when Delphi wages are cut and it sets a pattern of pressing down on wages to succeed competitively, ... It reverses the success story of the American economy, which has always been that U.S. firms paid the most.
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Whatever the final language, it will be the benchmark of how other negotiations are judged. Since the auto workers won pensions in '48, a lot of things Detroit has done, for good or for bad, has set a pattern. This will be the case, even if the rhetoric of lifetime jobs guarantees outstrip the language.
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There is more than one way out of this canyon they are in right now,
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Steve Miller has gone from a provocative after-dinner speaker to a negotiator. It's definitely a U-turn.
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Fox and Chavez are both serving important domestic political purposes for each other.
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There are some very hard choices and no easy answers. This is a long way from over.