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...even a dynamo like Ghosn, successfully run two carmakers? He could keep his hands full with Renault alone. Like other European carmakers, Renault is grappling with high labor costs, slim profit margins and surging competition on its home turf from Toyota. Yet Ghosn, characteristically, has set ambitious goals for Renault, aiming to add new models, lift profit margins to 6% in 2009, from 2.5% today, and sell an additional 800,000 cars a year. "Everybody knows what I mean by commitment," he says, "and I'm very serious about that...
...service aside, the Bush Administration has largely ignored the 58-year-old Arab-Israeli conflict, which provides pretexts for wars, feeds political extremism and bolsters authoritarian regimes. Syria's price for good behavior in Lebanon and Iraq is the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel for nearly 40 years. Labor governments negotiated towards that end with Syria, but the current Israeli government insists that the Golan is part of the Jewish State...
...their race and ethnicity. In recent weeks, students have rallied around them, forming a group to protest alleged racial discrimination against Harvard employees. Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesman Robert Mitchell said Monday afternoon that the employees would not be laid off. “A committee of labor and management representatives are looking into this entire layoff process,” he said. He said although he could not comment on the employees’ charges, the University takes allegations of discrimination and racism “very seriously.” “FAS Human Resources will...
...CHARGED. Peter Hartz, 65, former Volkswagen personnel director; with 44 counts of breach in trust in connection with a corruption scandal at Europe's largest automaker; in Braunschweig, Germany. State prosecutors allege that Hartz oversaw illegal payments of $2.4 million made without Volkswagen's knowledge to labor representative Klaus Volkert, who resigned soon after the investigation began last June. Hartz, who quit last July, denies wrongdoing but accepts the perks were in his "area of supervision." If convicted, he could face five years in jail...
...hiring management, and equal access to hiring and promotion opportunities. The participants also laid out plans to hold multiple teach-ins on Nov. 30 and a public demonstration near MCB labs on Divinity Ave. on Dec. 7. They discussed strategies to gain support from campus organizations, such as Student Labor Action Movement and the Latino student groups. One of the meeting’s organizers, Jose G. Olivarez ’10, who was wearing a button that said “Stand for Security!”—a reference he said to security guard unionization, which...