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...auto sales, for not ensuring that recommended changes took place at the company's Normal, Illinois plant. The factory is the target of two still-pending suits charging that hundreds of female assembly line workers were groped, fondled and subjected to other harassment. But TIME's Bill McWhirter notes the move is mostly cosmetic since it doesn't address the problem at the plant level. "All we've seen is a whole lot of lip service," McWhirter says. "By itself, simply changing the guard at the top is not coming down to dealing with some of the real fundamental things...
...billion in corporate investment. Chrysler is planning to close the Mound Road plant after it launches production of a new generation of engines next year at another engine plant. Company spokesmen say all of their jobs are to be moved to the new plant. Still, says TIME's Bill McWhirter, "These strikers may find themselves outflanked. If Chrysler has decided not to keep a plant open because it is no longer economical, the workers will not have the last word on this." The strike will force Chrysler to shut down production at four assembly plants on Friday, affecting another...
...sweet contracts, crossed the picket lines in the first six weeks. While issues like pay and job security were easy for the public to understand, the unions also opposed changes that are generally considered management's prerogative. The result of such tactics, says TIME's Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter, was a suspicion among Detroit's historically pro-union citizens that this was a strike for its own sake. McWhirter reports that circulation and advertising at the papers, while improving, are still down about 15 percent, and hundreds of striking employees have taken pay cuts at other jobs. "In this...
...charge, properly disclosing that the cars had had previous problems or giving out the correct warranties. Chrysler will appeal the decision, which may indefinately delay the ban on the corporation restocking dealerships with vehicles. "This ruling is a lemon the size of the Yellow Submarine," says TIME's William McWhirter. "A fine of this magnitude is absolutely unprecedented on a U.S. manufacturer. To make the manufacturers responsible for the actions of independent dealers is something Chrysler, a feisty company, is unlikely to take lying down. The corporation can't afford to lose access to any state, because it will become...
...Reported by William A. McWhirter and Joseph R. Szczesny/Detroit