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...increased productivity gleaned from the sweat of a layoff-decimated work force results in plenty of grousing. Manufacturing workers call ghost work "speed-up" (because the remaining employees have to hustle harder) or "stretch-out" (because of the longer hours). "They call it productivity," says Lane Windham, an AFL-CIO spokesman, referring to management...
...just 41,000 votes in Missouri and New Hampshire. It's also true that those votes swung Republican, and in the minds of voters, the problem wasn't that the Democratic message was obscured but that the Democrats obscured it. After examining a postelection poll of his members, AFL-CIO president John Sweeney said they felt "neither party has a plan to strengthen the economy." But he added that "this is a particularly strong indictment of the Democrats. They needed to be crystal clear about what they stand for on issues of importance to workers--jobs, the economy, health care...
...have never thought of." Ion Cotescu, union leader at Romania's ARO Campulung car factory, on workers' plans to pay the plant's €20 million debt by selling their semen "I can't respond to the deputy of the deputy of the American deputy secretary." Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's President-elect, on criticism by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick "It is glorious to be allowed to join the party. But the membership fee is very high." Xiang Shaoliang, CEO of Baopu Garment, on Chinese Communist Party plans to admit entrepreneurs
...more than $2 million to the race. United Seniors Association, a group subsidized in large part by the pharmaceutical industry, has spent about $1 million running ads with Art Linkletter touting Gekas' support for a prescription-drug benefit plan. (Holden supports a more comprehensive, Medicare-run plan.) The AFL-CIO has spent about $400,000 attacking, among other things, Gekas' support for NAFTA. Democrats, having some fun with Gekas' 1998 sponsorship of a measure allowing bankrupt property owners in five states, including Texas, to shield the full value of their homes from creditors, produced a flyer that features a shot...
...more than $2 million to the race. United Seniors Association, a group subsidized in large part by the pharmaceutical industry, has spent about $1 million running ads with Art Linkletter touting Gekas' support for a prescription-drug benefit plan. (Holden supports a more comprehensive, Medicare-run plan.) The AFL-CIO has spent about $400,000 attacking, among other things, Gekas' support for nafta. Democrats, having some fun with Gekas' 1998 sponsorship of a measure allowing bankrupt property owners in five states, including Texas, to shield the full value of their homes from creditors, produced a flyer that features a shot...