Word: ohio
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...irresistible force (worker demands for job security) and an immovable object (industry insistence on lower operating costs). General Motors and the United Auto Workers have just been in such a collision. A job action that began among 2,300 workers at a GM body-stamping plant in Lordstown, Ohio, expanded to nine GM assembly plants before the two sides finally reached a tentative settlement. It had idled 42,000 workers over the issue of the company's right to determine which jobs would be eliminated under a sweeping corporate restructuring scheduled to cut 74,000 hourly and salaried jobs...
DOWNTOWN DAYTON MAY NOT BE quite dead yet, but by dusk Ohio's sixth largest city is pretty much out cold for the night. With office vacancies at 22%, the evening rush hour is largely a function of urgency rather than congestion: nobody wants to be caught downtown after dark. By 6 Elder-Beerman, the last big department store since Lazarus closed its doors in January, is nearly empty. Outside a few remaining stragglers hurry to catch buses for the outlying suburbs and strip malls, leaving behind an uneasy mix of panhandlers, police and security guards. The only other substantial...
...exactly a rousing call to arms, but the battle is critical nonetheless. Enough of those Bill and Al T shirts among the 97,000 registered Democrats, 66,000 Republicans and 136,000 independents scattered across this swatch of gently rolling southwestern Ohio, and Clinton may get his hands on those White House curtains after all. When it comes to choosing Presidents, Montgomery County (pop. 574,000) tends to pick a winner. Only once since 1968 has the region failed to vote for the victorious candidate. In 1988 it gave Bush a 57% majority. Now both the Bush and Clinton campaigns...
...many cases, the trade-offs make sense -- both financially and environmentally. But in others, long-term costs and dangers can outweigh the benefits. "Pollution problems go up, property values collapse and frequently no real jobs result," says EPA engineer Hugh Kaufman, a hazardous-waste specialist. In East Liverpool, Ohio, some local residents, aided by Greenpeace, launched a hunger strike to protest the start-up of a giant incinerator that promoters say could help uplift the devastated steel region by processing dangerous industrial wastes...
...union are already at odds because of company plans to close 21 plants. Last week 2,300 GM workers struck a parts plant in Lordstown, Ohio, over job security. The action halted the assembly line for the much touted Saturn, which depends on a steady flow of auto components to meet its Japanese-inspired "just in time" production system...