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BILL ZOLLARS There are two parts to this story. Nonunion drivers are basically asked to leave their homes and not return for three weeks at a time. In contrast, at Teamsters-based companies like Yellow Roadway, the benefits are better, and because of how we've engineered our systems, our drivers are home virtually every night. It's a higher quality of life. So we're at the top of the food chain and have no trouble finding drivers. But for others, it's a serious issue. And the vast majority of those--the nonunion companies--employ several million drivers...
...Takenori Kanzaki, the New Komeito leader, says his party's support for the LDP won't change?for now. But the alliance is an uneasy one. The New Komeito has always wrapped itself in righteousness (its name means "clean government"). Its core principles include support for urban nonunion employees of small and medium-size companies, pacifism, and social welfare even at the cost of economic growth?planks that have never been the LDP's priorities. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi insists that though the LDP and the New Komeito "might have different views over certain issues, we'll coordinate over policies...
...economic slump. Golden State grocery workers are on strike for the first time in 25 years, over a plan by Kroger, Safeway and other chains to shift a bigger chunk of the cost of health care to their unionized labor force of some 70,000. Under competitive siege from nonunion superstores like Wal-Mart, whose health packages for hourly workers are stingier, the grocery chains complain that they are paying 50% more on health coverage than they were four years ago. In full-page ads in California newspapers, they proclaim, "We simply cannot pass these costs along to our customers...
...services, can find some part of its work that can be done off site. By taking advantage of lower wages overseas, U.S. managers believe they can cut their overall costs 25% to 40% while building a more secure, more focused work force in the U.S. Labor leaders--and nonunion workers, who make up most of those being displaced--aren't buying that rationale. "How can America be competitive in the long run sending over the very best jobs?" asks Marcus Courtney, president of the Seattle-based Washington Alliance of Technology Workers. "I don't see how that helps the middle...
...bankrupt Bethlehem Steel. Ross warns of more wage pressure ahead: "If we don't reform our labor system very soon, we won't have a manufacturing sector to worry about." He is taking aim at work rules that prevent union steelworkers from performing as efficiently as foreign competitors or nonunion rivals at U.S. mini-mills...