Harley Shaiken
Harley Shaiken
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If GM actually did pursue this route?there would be a really poisoned atmosphere in the United Auto Workers plants where the parts are shipped.
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The corporation knows the sensitivity of these kinds of issues, they have a lot of experience with what will provoke a local strike. What I suspect they (the GM management) didn't anticipate is that it would reach this intensity.
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The CAW, given the context, has done very well. The boat is afloat and upright after going through the rapids. They wanted to protect their members.
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The global economy has become a blast furnace that seeks to eliminate many of the gains that steelworkers have won over the years.
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The court cases reflect that the rat has made its claw marks felt.
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The close vote tells us there's a lot of anger and apprehension out there.
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A lot will depend on who's the first company up. You may almost have an insipid auction taking place among the companies trying to be first.
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You've got the pressures of the global economy, fierce competition in deregulated industries like airlines and powerful anti-union employers like Wal-Mart.
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The union has very painful choices, but it's managed to preserve important principles in a very turbulent environment. At the end of the day, UAW retirees will still have paid health benefits. Less than before but far more than most Americans have.
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The hotels are confronting a union that has significantly more leverage and more imagination than in the past. The union is slowly but surely introducing national bargaining in an industry in which the companies used to tower over the local unions.
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The members are angry and fearful. Imagine you work a lifetime, and then you see it go up in smoke.
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You could have the paradox of lifetime job guarantees and far fewer workers.