Word: chrysler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What type of enterprise do Chrysler Corp., CNA Financial, Fibreboard, Walt Disney Productions, International Paper, LTV Aerospace and Signal Oil all have in common...
After a costly ten-week strike last fall, the United Auto Workers won an immediate 13% wage increase from General Motors and then turned on Chrysler, which yielded similar raises, including a 13% pay boost for several thousand white-collar workers...
...advertising and other services; most are relatively small, averaging about 185 employees each. So far no large companies have wholly adopted a four-day schedule, but Armour & Co. did so this month at its food-freezing plant in Fairmont, Minn., and hopes to make similar changes at other plants. Chrysler Corp. and the United Auto Workers have agreed to study the possibility, and even giant IBM is taking a new look at the work week, including the possibility of putting some or all of its 157,000 U.S. employees on a four-day routine. Two insurance companies, Mutual...
Muscat and Oman had only six miles of paved roadway, and the Sultan's red 1955 Chrysler Imperial rusted in the palace courtyard for lack of any place to go. Music and dancing were forbidden and women were compelled to wear mid-calf skirts despite summer temperatures of 130° F. Electricity and running water were unknown to most people. The xenophobic Said permitted few foreigners in and fewer Omanis out, but an estimated 200,000 subjects managed to flee during the past ten years. Cannons sounded curfew after sundown. With only three schools in the entire sultanate...
There are many potential advantages to what is called "the 4-40 week" (to emphasize the fact that workers would still put in 40 hours in four ten-hour days). For Chrysler, it holds a promise of higher worker morale and lower absenteeism, which now ranges up to 20% of the industry's work force on Fridays and Mondays. Consumers might benefit as well-from a squeezing out of "Monday-morning lemons." On days like Monday, when absenteeism is high, auto companies are forced to put inexperienced workers on the line and usually turn out a higher proportion...