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Again, GM's strategy is typical of the auto industry and American companies generally. At the Ford Motor plant in St. Louis, Missouri, nearly 3,400 full- time employees make around $57,000 a year thanks to overtime pay. But the plant also uses 200 temporary employees who do essentially the same jobs but make only $20,000 annually because they work only two or three days a week. Economywide, the number of temps in the labor force has more than doubled in the past decade. Says Roach: "The ((job-creating)) leader in this recovery...
...long run, continually cutting back is obviously no way to grow. Even in the short run, downsizing carried to an extreme can reduce the very productivity it first enhances. While Ford Motor Co. is working heavy overtime, chairman Alexander Trotman is worried about it. Says he: "You don't get real productivity by simply ramping up the line speed . . . In the beginning everyone enjoys the extra pay, but we all get tired, pressures build up, people get edgy and tensions break out." On the other hand, he says, hiring enough extra people to work everybody straight time "wouldn't make...
Before even 250 of the cars were delivered, Ford Motor Co. recalled its brand- new Contour and Mercury Mystique sedans. Reason: a static electricity charge can build up on a shield attached to the fuel-filler pipe, igniting fuel vapors. The cars had been hyped by one of the most expensive advertising campaigns in company history...
...Cambridge Liquor License Commission assured me that it was indeed against the law to buy alcohol without some form of Massachusetts identification, and she suggested that I simply buy a Massachusetts Liquor Identification card. It would cost only "about $25" and a simple trip to the Registry of Motor Vehicles--along with a birth certificate...
...course, a less-than-friendly woman at the Registry of Motor Vehicles informed me that she had never heard of the so-called "Liquor" I.D. card. She did know, however, about Massachusetts driver's licenses ($33.75 including a road test) and Massachusetts state I.D. cards...