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...must rise with the occasion." Notice: he said we must rise. But that requires, if nothing else, a sense of shared values. Few paid much attention last December as Southern Republicans in the Senate blocked a $14 billion federal rescue of GM and Chrysler. That lawmakers representing states with nonunion foreign-auto plants should blame organized labor for not slashing worker benefits to levels offered by Nissan hardly came as a shock...
Salary increases of up to five percent were common during the flush years that predated the economic crisis, according to Bill Jaeger, director of the Harvard Union for Clerical and Technical Workers. But last year, faculty and nonunion staff members did not receive a salary increase due to the freeze...
Further, GM's decision to leave NUMMI, which wasn't eligible for bailout money, made the plant any easy candidate for a shutdown, since Toyota's plants in Kentucky, Indiana, Texas and Alabama are all newer and nonunion, Cole says. United Auto Workers officials organized a large protest outside the NUMMI plant last week. (Read "Why Volkswagen Is Powering Through the Recession...
...This wouldn't even be an issue at a nonunion company, because retirees wouldn't have health care," says Van Conway, a Detroit-based corporate turnaround specialist...
...health-care expenses for both active and retired employees now run $2.2 billion, a figure that will drop significantly thanks to the solution provided by the trusts. Once the retiree-health-care liabilities are removed from company balance sheets, the gap in labor costs between Detroit and its nonunion competitors in the South should drop to $250 per vehicle or even less, according to one estimate by the Center for Automotive Research. (Read "Don't Call It Bankruptcy...