Word: labors
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...Monday, members of several labor organizations, including workers from the Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press and Union Summer picketed the Yard. The labor organizations have waged more than 10 protests during the past three months to force action on the part of James I. Cash, Robinson professor of business at the Harvard Business School...
DETROIT: General Motor's labor woes continued as the United Auto Workers went on strike today at a key plant which manufactures transmission for most GM vehicles made in North America. The walkout, the sixth this year, involves 2,800 member of UAW Local 909 from the automaker's Warren, Michigan facility. The workers are upset at company plans to transfer wheel-making operations from the Warren plant and replace them with work from the Buick City plant in Flint, which the automaker may shut down within months. Although talks are expected to resume today, GM officials fear that...
...many of our citizens." Does that mean the Fed will raise rates at its August 19 meeting? Kadlec doesn't think so. "He's got nothing to latch onto. There is no sign of inflation, and the economy still seems to be slowing. The only worrisome area is labor, where the scarcity of workers might push wages up, but even that's just minuscule right now." Reassured investors sent the Dow up 154 points on the day for a new record close of 8061.65. Kadlec says Greenspan has softened in one way: he'll let traders have their...
...Second Harvest study blames the increases on the onset of state and federal welfare reform. Virginia, Michigan and Wisconsin food pantries reported increases; all three passed welfare-reform laws during the past two years. But the decline in middle-income jobs may be culpable as well. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows some of the largest gains in job growth among the lowest-paying categories. Poquoson, Va., resident Tim Strickland, 39, makes $25,000 a year. But last year he hurt his back and temporarily left his job as a water-treatment-plant operator. "I was living penny by penny...
This is old-fashioned industrial hardball, and Wheeling-Pitt has marked some plants for closing or sale. It was also charged with bad-faith bargaining by the National Labor Relations Board. Industry rivals can only hope the impasse lasts...