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Furthermore, General Motors planners said last week that 21,400 laid-off auto workers will be recalled during the next three months at seven U.S. assembly and parts plants. That will make only a ripple in the pool of 250,000 blue-collar employees who are on indefinite layoff, meaning they have no dates to return to work. But GM's is possibly the largest recall of auto workers since the mid-'70s. Union officials were encouraged. Owen Bieber, who will succeed Douglas Fraser as head of the United Auto Workers in May, said he hoped...
Several councillors and some neighborhood groups have stated that the present zoning will allow developers to concentrate on highly profitable office complexes, which would not provide job opportunities for the largely blue collar population. In addition, the housing constructed along with the offices will be liminted and accessible only to white-collar workers, serving to gentrify the Cambridgeport neighborhood...
...this family-oriented blue-collar city faces a challenge that is hardly less dramatic: coping with an ebbing economic tide. Poor demand for products of the area's manufacturing-based economy has boosted the unemployment rate...
...much steel the workers produce, they are paid bonuses as large as 200% of their base salaries. Says Iverson: "People think that because we're in the South and are nonunion, our workers make less, but we reward high productivity." He contends that in 1981 the average blue-collar worker at Nucor made $30,000, in contrast to $28,500 at the large steel companies. But that Nucor worker, Iverson maintains, churned out about 850 tons of steel during the year, while employees at the big firms averaged only 350 tons...
Most American workers consider competition from Japanese imports at east partly responsible for pushing U.S. industry into its worst downturn since the Great Depression. But last week a group of grateful blue-collar workers in LaVergne, Tenn., a tiny factory town outside Nashville, welcomed the Japanese as saviors. Bridgestone Tire Co. of Japan bought LaVergne's truck-tire plant from Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. for $52 million. In a ceremony to mark the occasion, Satoshi Kishimoto, a Bridgestone executive who will be the plant's general manager, greeted 200 of his new employees with a cheery...