Word: unionizers
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...said Senator Bob Corker, who added that "GM is spiraling downward and in serious trouble" and that Chrysler "barely has a heartbeat." He then called on Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United Auto Workers, to rate the companies. "I'd rank 'em Ford, Chrysler and General Motors," the union man responded. That won't get Mulally any more money, but at least he knows where he stands in the halls of Congress and the union...
Europe became a better place for less-than-picture-perfect fruits and vegetables this month as the European Union scrapped rules banning oddly shaped produce from supermarket shelves. "This marks the new dawn for the curvy cucumber and the knobby carrot," said E.U. Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel. (See a brief history of competitive eating...
...most influential climate negotiators in the world - including representatives for China and Indonesia, who will be vital in completing a new Kyoto Protocol - that he intends to fight climate change head-on. And his statement may well buoy the flagging global momentum on climate change. The European Union, which has long led the world in aggressively addressing global warming, has lately gotten cold feet about its own ambitious carbon targets, with poorer members like Poland arguing that such goals are unaffordable in a depressed global economy. Big developing nations like China, India and Brazil, which will be responsible...
...statement put out by the G-20 after the meeting reflected both the United States’ desire to maintain open markets and Europe’s desire for more heavy-handed regulation. The G-20, established in 1999 and made up of 19 countries and the European Union, represents 90 percent of the world’s gross national product. The group will reassemble in London next April. —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu
Unfortunately, the primary obstacle to fixing our infrastructure is exactly the problem that anyone still reading is facing; infrastructure is profoundly, unequivocally, and utterly unexciting. There are no union-like picketers banding together to rally for the local toll road. There are no passionate highway rights activists waging sit-ins until freeways receive the new lanes they need to survive. There are no “Save the Bridges” campaigns, and no “I Stand with Route 84” bumper stickers. Despite the staggering number of people served by any individual road or bridge (except...