Word: nissans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's what Rhonda Hall and Bonita Bourke thought. Three years ago, they were hired by a California subsidiary of Nissan to set up and run the electronic mail network that links the car company's Infiniti dealers. A female supervisor heard that some of their E-mail was getting pretty steamy and began monitoring the messages. She soon discovered that the two had some disparaging things to say about her, and the women were threatened with dismissal. When Hall and Bourke filed a grievance complaining that their privacy had been violated, they were fired...
...might think the two employees had a strong case for unlawful termination. But their case was dismissed. Nissan's lawyers argued successfully that since the company owned the computer system, its supervisors had a perfect right to read anything created on it. "I'm dismayed," says Noel Shipman, the attorney who is handling Hall and Bourke's appeal. "To me, the simple bottom line is that gentlemen don't read each other's mail...
...industry accounts for 10% of Japan's overall economy; thus its falling fortunes are a major factor in a deepening recession. Domestic car and truck sales are down 13% from the 1990 peak of 7.7 ( million vehicles, and profits for the five biggest carmakers -- Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Mitsubishi and Mazda -- are off about 64% from the same year. Some of the smaller companies, like Isuzu, have been in the red for two years and may soon be joined by the likes of Nissan and Mazda...
...heaviest impact. Their emergency measures include reductions in product lines, severe cost cutting, mergers with other automakers and drastic rethinking of business practices. In mid-December, sixth-ranked Isuzu announced that it was getting out of the passenger-car business to concentrate on its truck business. Second-ranked Nissan is slowly absorbing ninth-ranked Fuji Heavy Industries, the parent of ailing Subaru...
...world where the length a car trip is measured by the number of songs that pass on the radio. His role model is Mr. Frank E. Miller of the Bechtol Corporation, an Iacocca prototype who has published an autobiography. Tyler's sources of pride include his Comfortmobile(a black Nissan) and his sleek, high-tech bedroom, which he dubs the Modernarium...