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Anger among labor-union members could flare up during the next few weeks, as the United Auto Workers begin negotiating new contracts for 459,000 workers at Ford and General Motors. If bargaining breaks down this year, the U.A.W. is likely to choose Ford as its primary strike target. Reason: the company, which passed GM last year with earnings of $3.3 billion, is now Detroit's most profitable automaker. Even if those negotiations proceed smoothly, however, there are other signs that labor's restiveness is slowly increasing, despite the decline of U.S. union membership from 20.1 million...
...account for only 2% of the $24 billion factory-automation business (such items as computers and other electronically controlled industrial machinery make up much of the rest), the mechanical menials have drastically altered many sectors of the American workplace. Robots perform more than 98% of the spot welding on Ford's highly successful Taurus and Sable cars. At Doehler-Jarvis, a major Ohio metal fabricator, robots load and unload die-casting machines, trim parts and ladle molten metal. At IBM factories across the country, robots insert disk drives into personal computers and snap keys onto electronic typewriter keyboards...
According to David Riesman '31, Ford Professorof Social Sciences Emeritus, the recent focus onthe international implications of American highereducation is actually a long-term movement that"is just beginning to be voiced by leaders...
...Roger Porter, who served as a White House aide in the Ford and Reagan Administrations, the point was brought home in Reagan's first term when Secretary of Energy Donald Hodel told the Cabinet he would like to reduce the Office of Fossil Energy to 591 people but was stymied because Congress had decreed the office could not be shrunk below 754. "The efforts by Congress to micromanage the Executive business are most unfortunate," says Porter, who now teaches a course on the presidency at Harvard. It makes for good theater in the electronic age but, in Porter's view...
...independent with unpredictable enthusiasms, appointed in 1975 by Ford...