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...agreement with Ford does not automatically resolve the ongoing negotiations that labor is having with the managements of GM and Chrysler, but it does establish a prototype that could be used, and it signals the UAW's new willingness to compromise on this issue. "The modifications will protect jobs for UAW members by ensuring the long-term viability of the company," said UAW President Ron Gettelfinger...
...Hinrichs, group vice president of Global Manufacturing and Labor Affairs at Ford Motor Company, said the tentative agreement gives Ford "the option" of using Ford common stock for up to 50% of the payments into the VEBA in lieu of cash. "We will consider each payment when it is due and use our discretion in determining whether cash or stock makes sense at the time, balancing our liquidity needs and preserving shareholder value," Hinrichs said...
...cash was a windfall for Vietnam's 10 million poorest. It was a way of helping people truly suffering from the economic crisis and a series of natural disasters that hit the country last year, says Ngo Truong Thi, the deputy director of social welfare at the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, which oversaw the program. "Giving out cash to the poor was also part of measures to stimulate the economy," Thi says...
...among them SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, in charge of the "Final Solution," and Auschwitz supervising doctor Josef Mengele, in charge of the going through the prisoners who arrived on trains at the camp, deciding who went to the gas chamber and who was kept alive for slave labor. Eichmann was kidnapped by a group of undercover agents from Israel's Mossad intelligence service in 1960, then tried in Jerusalem and executed. Mengele lived undisturbed in South America, first in Argentina and later in Brazil where, under a false name, he died while swimming at a beach...
...must be remembered that the custodial staff cuts do not occur in a vacuum. If cuts are not made here, they will be made somewhere else. The educational mission of Harvard must be the main determinant when considering what programs and staff to eliminated, and cutting outsourced custodial labor is a reasonable place to reduce spending. Harvard spokesperson Kevin Galvin explained that the cuts are due to “unprecedented fiscal situation [at] Harvard” that is causing the university to carefully consider funding for each of the programs it administers...