Word: volkswagens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the football team could not be reached for comment concerning the alleged allegations of the devious dimwits because they all left for a weekend of fun and frolic at the Cape in their Volkswagen Rabbits, Chevrolet Vegas, American Motors Pacers, and Audi 100LS's immediately following the game...
Proudly, officers of United Auto Workers Local 2055 announced two weeks ago the completion of negotiation of a first contract for 1,800 members at Volkswagen's six-month-old plant in New Stanton, Pa. The pact called for a minimum wage next year of $7.48 an hour for unskilled workers, rising to $9.62 in 1981, and $9.48 for skilled diemakers, rising in three years to $11.62 - plus fringes. But the workers were not buying. Last week they rejected the contract 1,235 to 94 and stomped out on strike...
THERE was great joy in Mudville when Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp announced in August 1976 that Volkswagen would locate its first major U.S. assembly plant in his state. There was joy, first, because the VW decision bucked a trend of industrial exodus from pennsylvania and the whole Graybelt (the declining Northeast corridor), an exodus brought on by the antiquation of the area's facilities, physical constraints on expansion, the relatively high tax load and union wages. There was joy, second, because Pennsylvania had beaten out Ohio in the VW selection process...
...lease back, $30 million for the transportation links, and untold millions in abated taxes. Milton Shapp looked like a financial wizard, and the Rabbits and Dashers came rolling off the line in New Stanton. No one picked up on the Cleveland Plain Dealer interview with the president of volkswagen America: He said that VW had never really considered the Ohio site, because the tank factory was simply too antiquated for their purposes, and that the company had always intended to go to New Stanton where the factory was already built for modern auto assembly...
...vast capital pool of public employee pension funds to advance their own economic well-being, just as workers and communities should use their pension funds not only to asure future incomed but present income, jobs, growth as well. The problem with Shapp's package was that it only subsidized Volkswagen, and increased Pensylvania's dependence on the private sector. That $135 million loan, II spread out to community development groups in the state, could produce many more jobs than the 4,000 VW is providing in New Stanton. Plus, the money could then be directed to localities on the basis...