Word: forklift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...created by companies with fewer than 500 employees, small businesses suffer as severely as their corporate brethren. Bill Gregory, who owns Gregory Forest Products Sawmill in Glendale, Ore. (pop. 870), did not know he had a problem on his hands until one of his 400 employees noticed that a forklift operator took forever to count loads of lumber. A bit of digging disclosed that about 10% of the mill's workers needed help developing proficiency in math and English. So, at a cost of $15,000, Gregory asked the nearby Umpqua Community College to provide , instruction. Says...
...seem to reverberate in Dole's dark inner soul. Bush, the quasi-New Englander, tried to usurp the "I'm one of you" line when his campaign moved to New Hampshire. But from his mouth it sounded a bit silly; one thing Bush is not, no matter how many forklift trucks he is photographed driving, is a man of the people...
Landing the Wyeth interview was "pure dumb luck," says Schaire, 32, the magazine's energetic executive editor, whose first art job was driving a forklift for the Metropolitan Museum's gift-shop warehouse. He requested the interview by letter in November 1984 (enclosing a copy of the magazine with a cover story on, coincidentally, "Winslow Homer's Mystery Woman"). Six months later a Wyeth intermediary replied that the publicity-shy artist would agree to talk...
...questionable financial, practical and moral implications of comparable worth, the long-term benefit for workers is negative. If a company is forced to pay secretaries at the rate of computer operators, then the company may well attempt to rid themselves of the secretaries altogether. If a warehouse must pay forklift drivers the equivalent of truck drivers, then it will attempt to do without forklift drivers. In this age of automation, much can change. If a business can no longer determine the value of their employees given its budget, then it will automate at the employees' expense. For the value...
...Apple Computer, have set up circuit-board assembly lines in Asia. General Motors' Delco electronics division has built plants in Singapore and Mexico. Such moves stir bitter resentment among American workers. Says Edward Sesma, 33, who is being laid off this week from his job as a forklift driver at a San Diego tuna cannery: "You only have to look a few miles across the border to Mexico to notice all the companies setting up shop there to take advantage of cheap costs. It's terrible...