Word: blue-collar
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...terrible truth, which few can face squarely, is that the skills that supported these men and women so well for so many years have lost their value in the marketplace. Management Expert Peter Drucker suggests that blue-collar manufacturing is going the way of agriculture in the postwar period: employment will decline markedly even if output rises. By the year 2005, Drucker figures, only 5% to 10% of the work force will be involved in manufacturing, compared with 20% today. That conclusion, striking as it is, is not very controversial. Last week, in a "technical memorandum" that was presented...
...decades every contract signed by the major steel producers and the United Steelworkers brought higher wages and benefits for the people in the grimy business of running America's blast furnaces and rolling mills. In time steelworkers became the highest-paid blue-collar employees in the U.S. In January their average hourly pay ran at $14.39, vs. $13.07 for auto workers and $8.71 for manufacturing workers generally...
...advocates a partnership between business and Government to help revitalize American industry, and speaks of the needier tougher trade policies. "I'd press our nation to compete again," he says. So far Mondale has concentrated on each of the Democrats' traditional constituencies: organized labor, blacks, Jews, blue-collar workers, women and teachers. He appealed to many of them last week in thoroughly Democratic Chicago. "This Administration's position on women is as wrong as it can possibly be," he told a luncheon of professional women. To a group of senior citizens in a Jewish neighborhood, he praised...
Furthermore, General Motors planners said last week that 21,400 laid-off auto workers will be recalled during the next three months at seven U.S. assembly and parts plants. That will make only a ripple in the pool of 250,000 blue-collar employees who are on indefinite layoff, meaning they have no dates to return to work. But GM's is possibly the largest recall of auto workers since the mid-'70s. Union officials were encouraged. Owen Bieber, who will succeed Douglas Fraser as head of the United Auto Workers in May, said he hoped...
...this family-oriented blue-collar city faces a challenge that is hardly less dramatic: coping with an ebbing economic tide. Poor demand for products of the area's manufacturing-based economy has boosted the unemployment rate...