Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have several viable options," Muller said, and his threat may carry some weight--should Biogen pull out, it would take with it about 100 potential jobs, including 50 blue collar positions...
While Carter had been hurting himself by popping off, Reagan had managed to avoid making any consequential verbal gaffes as he courted blue-collar and ethnic voters in the Midwest and made raids into the South. Last week he picked up the endorsement of the Teamsters Union, which has often backed Republican candidates, and the National Maritime Union, which has never done...
...other hand, he wants to win, and ambition has sandpapered the edge of some of his most obvious political splinters. He is courting blue-collar votes, but he has not changed his mind on any of the important labor legislation pending before Congress. He is making a token attempt to win black support. In public, if someone raises the question, he will say that opposition to the landmark civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s has faded, and of course as President he will enforce those laws. But in private he will still say that the Voting Rights...
...corner is Detroit's combative mayor, Coleman Young, all the scrappier now that his city has received an impressive $50 million in federal grants in the past two weeks. Young is sure to do his level best to bring out the black vote. More questionable is the blue-collar vote. The leadership of the powerful United Auto Workers union, bulwark of the state Democratic Party, is stepping on the gas for the President, but much of the membership remains skeptical about Carter, whose economic policies they blame for the fact that one-third of the auto industry...
...problems. The nation's mills are currently operating at only 66% of capacity, while the U.S. imports nearly 17% of its steel. In the first eight months of 1980, domestic mills produced an estimated 35 million tons for U.S. consumption, while imports totaled 10.6 million tons. Blue-collar employment in the industry has slumped from a high of 544,000 in 1953 to 264,000 in July. Profits of four of the five leading steel companies are expected to decline sharply this year...