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...plants and laying off workers. The company can't slim down easily, a legacy of earlier battles with the U.A.W. and labor deals that make it prohibitively expensive to shutter factories. What happens to a GM worker when his or her plant shuts down? Not much. Under GM's contract with the U.A.W., laid-off workers are entitled to 95% of their salary plus benefits for nearly two years. So while closing factories saves money on materials and overhead, it takes quite a while to shave the payroll and bolster the bottom line. Wagoner is expected to pressure the union...
...then only if a smooth road lies ahead. Wagoner is getting plenty of advice about how to fix things, from cutting GM's $1.1 billion stock dividend to demanding deeper wage-and-benefit cuts from hourly workers. A confrontation over labor issues is looming, in fact, since GM's contract with the United Auto Workers (U.A.W.) expires in September 2007. Until then, Wagoner seems to be gambling that the company can stay afloat via a series of tune-ups, ranging from having workers bear more health-care costs (annual savings: $3 billion) to eliminating weak models and launching redesigned SUVs...
...union representing 340 Harvard janitors ratified a new six-year contract with the University on Friday that will gradually raise the starting wage for custodial workers to $18.50 per hour. After the two parties reached a tentative agreement late last Tuesday, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 615 put the proposed deal to a vote among the janitors throughout the day Thursday. The janitors overwhelmingly approved the contract, with fewer than 10 workers voting against it, according to SEIU Local 615 spokeswoman Courtney Snegroff. “People are very satisfied,” she said. Harvard spokesman...
...visiting freshman Chelsea M. Grimes. “I just feel like it’s a terrible burden to place on us. We’ve adjusted to college life here at Harvard. Both schools are at fault. They are playing off each other. Both talk about the contract and not about us as people...
...response, UC member Ryan A. Petersen ’08, who co-wrote the position paper, said, “It is a collegial courtesy on this issue. It is not an original contract or a legally binding thing. There are some ethical issues with the idea of Harvard and Tulane making decisions on the freedom of movement and freedom of education of visiting Tulane students without their consent...