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...dramatic decline was, not surprisingly, in finance, which hemorrhaged 71% of expected job openings. Less expected but equally troubling is the 37% decline in hiring for professional services, which include accounting and engineering. "Poor hiring estimates from this area speak to the depth of the recession in the college labor market for the class of 2009," the report says. (See TIME's special report on paying for colleges...
...added that he regularly speaks by phone with Senator Edward M. Kennedy - who in his capacity as head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has been working on the issue at a distance as he undergoes treatment for brain cancer - and has been meeting with some of the key players in the House, including Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Henry Waxman and Ways and Means chairman Charlie Rangel...
...chin just as much as Detroit. "This attitude, targeting the UAW as the bad guy here or the reason the auto industry is in rough shape - they think that's unjustified, not warranted," says David Lipsky, professor of dispute resolution at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. And with some reason, says Lipsky, "they were innovative and creative: they built a comfortable lifestyle for middle-class Americans. And now it's turned out to be a house of cards...
...never had the benefits. So they are not going to give up anything without a fight. In mid-February, the union actually stormed out of negotiations with GM over reducing the company's retiree health-care costs, as GM seeks to restructure costs with bondholders, suppliers and, of course, labor...
...union has already made big concessions. The 2007 labor contract with GM transferred health-care costs from the company to a union-run plan and set up a lower wage structure for new hires. The company is asking for more because it has no other choice given the devastating drop in sales...