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...automakers acknowledge that they are looking to obtain additional concessions from the United Auto Workers, which has come under intense fire in Congress for its extensive pay and benefit packages. Union leaders are meeting this week in Detroit to take up the issue on whether to re-open their current contracts with the Big Three...
...also said while he was concerned about the impact of the end of the jobs bank, where workers on long-term layoff basically collect almost all of their wages while not working. The jobs bank had become a hot-button issue that was impeding the domestic carmakers' efforts to obtain federal assistance before the end of the year. Fewer than 4,000 workers at the three companies now collect wages through the jobs bank, which applies only after the workers have been on indefinite layoff for more than 48 weeks...
...departure from normal practice, the Commission released documents from their January raids meant to expose the schemes. "We need to identify options to obtain or acquire patents to limiting the freedom of operation of our competitors," said one passage from a document seized from one unnamed company...
...period of immigration, legal and illegal, over the past 20 years, it’s actually not all that easy to find negative impact from immigration,” Dominguez said. He discussed the barriers inherent in pursuing immigration reform, particularly devising a method for currently illegal immigrants to obtain citizenship. Although a path toward legalization is favorable in that it would lead to decreased law-breaking and a more manageable flow of labor, a system allowing undocumented immigrants to eventually become citizens may motivate more immigrants to enter illegally. He acknowledged the proposal of a mandatory citizenship ID, though...
...several factors helped engage the youth in the election,” she said. “[Obama] revolutionized how political campaigns are run especially through his use of the Internet.” H-VOTE, an Institute of Politics program, helped students register in their home states and obtain absentee ballots. Two-thousand seventeen students registered or pledged to vote through H-VOTE this year, four times the number in 2004. Levine said that while turnout among youth voters was high, many people expected the number to be even higher. “It wasn’t higher...