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Among Hispanics over age 16 almost 90 per cent have at one point been employed. About 84 per cent of these are blue-collar--more than half work in factories. Laborers, carpenters and semstresses are the next largest blue-collar job categories, while secretaries compose the largest number of white-collar workers...
...worldwide. Moreover, many bankers and merchants think that while MasterCard may carry clout, as its ads used to proclaim, Visa carries class. The name Visa seems to spell easy access, a door-opener around the world. Says one New York banker: "MasterCard is taken more as a card for blue-collar people...
This time the survey was deepened to poll more thoroughly in the nation's key industrial states (Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York). The aim was to detect any notable shifts in the blue-collar vote. Large-scale defections from the Democratic Party helped both Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon win the presidency and today seem vital to Reagan's prospects. So far, no real switch has been found. Carter leads by 10 percentage points among blue-collar workers, setting these states up as some of the key battlegrounds between now and November...
...Labor Day speeches by Democratic candidates, and visited nearby Allen Park to grill sausages in the backyard of Emil Petri, a steelworker (and a Republican) who had invited over 20 neighbors to meet the candidate. Many of the guests were laid-off autoworkers and steelwork ers, the kind of blue-collar Democrats Reagan hopes to lure away from Carter...
Instead, workers and management share the same objectives. Each plant has its white-collar and blue-collar quality-control circles, in which three to ten employees meet on their own time to analyze the standards of work and ways to improve the product. The rewards for usable ideas are mostly psychological. Unlike General Motors' high-paying suggestion program, which offers employees up to $10,000 for useful innovations, a Japanese firm's award of $600 for a patentable idea is considered generous. At Nissan, maker of Datsun, an original proposal is usually rewarded with a ballpoint...