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...race for a new three-year auto contract shifted into high gear last week, when the United Auto Workers union chose Ford, currently the most labor-friendly of Detroit's Big Three employers, as the company it will bargain with first. The contract covering 400,000 autoworkers at the Big Three manufacturers expires this Saturday. The U.A.W. always zeroes in on one company in divide-and-conquer fashion, but in a break with four decades of tradition, the union has toned down its normally strident rhetoric and declined to set a strike deadline. Industry watchers expect the U.A.W. and Ford...
...U.A.W.'s real target is GM, which is under pressure from Wall Street to cut an additional 30,000 to 50,000 jobs--or up to 20% of its remaining U.S. hourly payroll--over the next three years. To do that, GM wants to buy more auto parts from outside suppliers. The No. 1 automaker uses in-house labor to build a whopping 70% of the parts that go into its vehicles, far more than its Detroit rivals. But the U.A.W. wants to save as many jobs as it can at GM, which could make the talks turn bitter...
...AUTO RACING Proposed marketing restrictions could put the brakes on tobacco-fueled motor sports...
This surreally cliched plot is made even more hyperbolic by the fact that it is indeed sung. All the way through. In French. To the accompaniment of a synthetic, Esquivel-esque cocktail jazz. For the English-speaking viewer, the experience of watching auto mechanics lip-synch their way through so much ear-coating ultrasynth reaches that special level of pleasurableness which is just shy of unbearable...
...Secretary of Transportation opened up in the Reagan Administration, she lobbied for the position and got it. It didn't hurt that the Reagan Administration had recently been assailed for its lack of senior women. As Secretary of Transportation, Dole is credited with two significant advances in auto safety--a brake light nicknamed the Dole light, and air bags--as well as a savvy p.r. campaign in which she billed herself as the "Safety Secretary." (She once greeted employees in the parking lot with a stop sign so that she could check if they were wearing their seat belts...