Word: plantes
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...people building the F-22s need the jobs they generate. In the past week, three labor groups whose members help assemble the planes - the AFL-CIO, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and the United Steelworkers - have urged lawmakers to keep them in production. With F-22 plants and suppliers spread across 44 states, there's a lot of support on Capitol Hill for keeping it in production. Senator Saxby Chambliss, the Georgia Republican who has thousands of constituents working on the planes at the Lockheed-Martin plant in Marietta, wants to keep those voters employed. He solicited...
...without the clout of Agassi. It's interesting to watch how Tom Casten and his son Sean, who run Recycled Energy Development, can get almost frustrated when they explain how much energy we leave on the table in just about everything we do. They can walk into a steel plant and immediately find 50 megawatts worth of wasted juice and design ways for it to be captured. There aren't many people who can do what the Castens do. As the price of gas goes up and our energy crunch becomes more acute, however, more companies like RED will surely...
...Worthless is precisely what the entire New Fabris plant will be become, warn the firm's 336 former employees, if their demands aren't met by July 31. Dozens of gas canisters have been strung around the factory in the central town of Châtellerault, and fears are rising that, with nothing to lose, the thwarted workers might actually explode them. "If we don't get what we're asking for, there will be nothing left of the factory for them to recover," say Guy Eyermann, a New Fabris staffer and delegate of the General Confederation of Labor union...
...July 31 deadline, there's little indication that the money needed to defuse the situation will be handed over. New Fabris was ordered into liquidation by a court in April, meaning its owners are in no condition to pay up. That's why workers are demanding that the plant's two biggest clients - the makers of Renault and Peugeot cars - provide the $41,000 for each job being eliminated. Not surprisingly, officials at both those groups say they aren't going to pony up the total $14 million that would cost - especially since the machinery and auto parts...
...several incidents in which French livestock farmers burned truckloads of live sheep coming in from Britain. Peeved farmers in the provinces have also repeatedly dumped improbable volumes of animal merde in front of state buildings, and in 2000, environmental catastrophe was narrowly averted when industrial workers angry about a plant closure in northern France dumped sulphuric acid into a drainage system that feeds a major river. Not to be outdone, grape growers in southern France have even resorted to "wine terrorism...