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...United Auto Workers' bargaining committees from General Motors, Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC are scheduled to meet in Detroit this week, facing pressure to make additional contract concessions in order to secure federal aid for the struggling automakers...
...Morgan's script has events push Frost against the ropes, the better to show how he rallied to win the fight. In a career slump after losing his Australian TV gig, he secures a contract for the Nixon interviews but must pay $200,000 out of his own pocket. The three big U.S. networks refuse to buy into his scheme, and he borrows money from friends. (He eventually creates a de facto network of independent stations to air the interviews.) Of the two reporters he hires to research Nixon, one, Bob Zelnick (large, puddingy Oliver Platt) is cynical of Frost...
...business. Toyota, which has seen its stock drop more than 50% since the beginning of the year, established an Emergency Profit Improvement Committee chaired by company president Katsuaki Watanabe. Since forming the committee last month, Toyota has planned cuts to production, as well as layoffs for 50% of its contract workers by the end of March and a 10% reduction in winter bonuses for managers...
...School Committee voted in May not to extend Fowler-Finn’s contract through July 2009, and the superintendent announced in September that he would step down in February 2009, six months before his contract expires. But on Nov. 13, he told a surprised committee he actually intended to depart the next day. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...story, "City Starts Search For School Chief," stated that the School Committee voted "not to extend Fowler-Finn’s contract through July 2009" and that his departure last month "surprised" the committee. In fact, the committee voted to extend his contract through next July, and committee members were not surprised by his departure...