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...full-size SUVs. Even if gas prices continue killing the segment, the thinking goes, GM could pick up market share. They like York's presence on GM's historically wimpy board. Analysts also figure GM will pay whatever it takes to avoid a Delphi strike. With roughly 6,000 blue-collar workers expected to be left at Delphi, GM "could easily afford to compensate those employees to avoid a labor disruption," notes Prudential Financial analyst Michael Bruynesteyn. And labor bosses know a strike would be mutually assured destruction. Says industry analyst Cole: "Everyone is scared to death...
...ended up finding out a lot about this kid,” he says. “His past, where he came from, his parents coming over as immigrants. And it’s a pretty amazing story, and it’s a hard-working, blue-collar kid. His story, as far as not having the easy road to where he is right now, just reminded me a lot of myself...
Jarding and Saunders argue that the Democratic Party is ignoring an important constituency. “Bubbas”—distinct from “rednecks”—are blue-collar in outlook, devoted to God and family, and keenly patriotic. They are also concerned with conservation...
...attention comes against a backdrop of rising peril for dropouts. If their grandparents' generation could find a blue-collar niche and prosper, the latest group is immediately relegated to the most punishing sector of the economy, where whatever low-wage jobs haven't yet moved overseas are increasingly filled by even lower-wage immigrants. Dropping out of high school today is to your societal health what smoking is to your physical health, an indicator of a host of poor outcomes to follow, from low lifetime earnings to high incarceration rates to a high likelihood that your children will drop...
Vultaggio is the blue-collar anti-CEO, a former truck driver and Brooklyn beer distributor who, with innovative packaging and consumer-friendly pricing, has built Arizona into the fastest-growing major bottled-tea brand in the country. And he has done it on his own terms, dismissing the conventional wisdom about management (chairmen schmooze; they don't reorganize warehouses in the middle of the night), finances (entrepreneurs sell out or go public as soon as they can) and marketing (consumer companies spend at least a few bucks on advertising to consumers) along the way. "Don came up from the bottom...