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...However, another contract the union signed with Mitsubishi back in September could become the template for the union's next contract with Detroit automakers. The UAW-Mitsubishi contract, which covers roughly 1,100 workers at the Japanese automaker's plant in Normal, Ill., called for workers to take a 14% pay cut, rolling back wages to $24 per hour from $28 per hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Sales Plummet, Worsening Crisis | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...Vice President Jimmy Settles, who negotiated a $4 per hour wage cut in return for new investment at a Mitsubishi plant in Normal, Ill. said he wasn't sure the modifications to the Big Three contract should include major wage cuts. "Mitsubishi represents less than 1% of the U.S. market," he said. Gettelfinger, however, made it plain that the situation was dire. "Even if all of our members were willing to work for nothing, it wouldn't help the automakers out of the situation they are in," Gettelfinger told reporters after a union meeting in Detroit, also noting that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UAW agrees to Concessions With Automakers | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...you’re in the carrel in front of me breathing like you just ran a 5k, you better hope I’m listening to Disney. So that instead of shoving you or mocking you or glaring at you aggressively, we can settle this the normal, civilized way.A battle-dance. Hanson style. —Jessica L. Fleischer ’10 is a History and Literature concentrator in Eliot House. And while she likes both Hanson and the Jonas Brothers, she still dislikes puppies of all kinds...

Author: By Jessica L. Fleischer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Confessions of an HSM Addict, A Misplaced Endpaper | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...several English books containing objectionable material like child abuse and pre-marital sex. The books included “Red Tent,” “Flowers for Algernon,” and “House on Mango Street,” or “normal books that people read all the time,” as Duncan described them. “They wrote a 20-page questionnaire, and they took a bunch of quotes out of context, plopped them down, and said ‘would you want your kids reading this smut...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Losing My Religion | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...normal times, the request would be superfluous. International aviation law and a separate bilateral agreement between Spain and the United States both require all airports in the two countries to permit emergency landings. But the flights the Spanish note refers to were far from normal. The year was 2002 and the U.S. Air Force was transferring Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners from Afghanistan to a U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay. Washington wanted to know if Spain could help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain's Secret Role in the War on Terror | 12/2/2008 | See Source »

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