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Chrysler president Thomas LaSorda, himself Canadian born, told a top Parliamentary committee Wednesday night that unless the Canada capitulates, he will move operations to the U.S. and Mexico, a position that has not only infuriated the CAW, but also triggered a public backlash against the teetering automaker. "I'm truly shocked," says analyst Dennis DesRosiers of Richmond Hill, Ont.-based DesRosiers Automotive Consultants. "LaSorda said things I thought I would never hear from an auto executive." The privately owned automaker has not shown the same flash of bravado and temper in dealing with Congress and the United Autoworkers...
...push the CAW's wage costs below that of the UAW's. Chrysler's hourly compensation for its Canadian work force, including non-wage benefits such as paid time off, is about $58 (C$75) compared with $55 in the U.S . The Detroit Three have extensive operations in Canada because under the Auto Pact signed in the 1960s, they agreed to make 60% of the cars sold to Canadians in their country. In exchange, tariffs were removed from vehicle imports...
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...highly skilled workers from abroad is detrimental to the international competitiveness of the U.S. economy. If foreign graduates of American universities are unable to find work in the United States, they are likely to take jobs in other countries with more liberal immigration systems, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, or New Zealand. As such, the debate over the H-1B program is not merely a question of “saving American jobs”—these new policies could actually threaten our nation’s long-term economic health and our global authority...
...more subtle and less and less propaganda," says executive producer Serge Gordey in Paris. "People were not saying the same mantra over and over." The documentary, which will screen at the South-by-Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, on March 17, as well as on television networks in Israel, Canada, the Netherlands and Sweden in the coming months, breaks the mold in another way, too. Though funded by the French-German television channel Arte, Gaza-Sderot was created for the Internet, reversing the typical order in which films show on television and are then posted online. While filming...