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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...
...rely on surrogates like Ludacris and REM's Michael Stipe to energize his base down the stretch. Chambliss vacuumed money from big donors as well as the Republican Party and the National Rifle Association; Martin did better with small donors and attracted a swarm of labor-union volunteers, but he's clearly swimming upstream...
...latest humiliation comes with Beijing's decision to boycott the 11th annual China-European Union summit, which has been scheduled to open in Lyon today. China stunned E.U. officials last week by announcing that its delegation of more than 150 political and business leaders would stay at home because, in the words of China's Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang, "the summit cannot be held in a sound atmosphere, nor can it achieve expected goals." The reason? The French President's plan to meet with Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on December 6 as part of an event honoring fellow...
...It’s a good time to be in a union,” he said, before noting that in such a large institution, it would be foolish to expect to avoid firings entirely...
...There’s never been a month in my 20 years at the union where nobody got laid off at the university,” he said, referring to normal fluctuations in employment. “Saying ‘no layoffs’ is an oversimplification, so we’re going to make sure that there is as little impact as possible on our members because of this...