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Michigan law requires that voters periodically renew school taxes, but when the district last year asked them to reap-prove a five-mill property tax and an additional five-mill tax, the voters, including a large number of blacks, balked...
...them to levy millage against themselves for highways or health services-only for schools. It's the only place people can vent their frustrations about taxes." Unless public attitudes change, Detroit schools may lose half of their remaining property tax revenues next year when a 7.5-mill tax comes up for reapproval...
...Stakhanovites* had a powerful incentive. Last October Kaiser officials announced that the 4,000-ton-a-month plant was being shut down, a victim of rising costs and stiffening foreign competition; a ton of two-inch Fontana pipe that sold for $300 was being offered by Japanese mills for $240. Recalls Dino Papavero, president of United Steelworkers Local 2869: "We asked management to give us a chance to make the mill...
...Spirit. The plant's maintenance staff began repairing in a day breakdowns that formerly took a week to fix. Operators of straightening and threading machines began catching mistakes that they had previously let pass. "There is a new spirit in the mill," says Assistant Works Manager Ray Robinson. Observes the union's Papavero: "Being recognized as people who can make creative suggestions has given the men a certain dignity...
...Fontana pipe, increased productivity has trimmed the price of the finished product by only some $11 a ton. "That isn't the $60 it would take to match Japan's price," says Robinson. Kaiser executives refuse to disclose when a final decision will be made on the mill's fate. For the moment, Fontana workers are hustling and hoping on a day-to-day basis...