Word: white-collar
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...more than five weeks, from the day before Thanksgiving until Jan. 6. Only its plant in St. Louis will produce cars. The move, which came as no surprise in view of Chrysler's 120-day inventory of unsold cars, means layoffs and bleak Christmases for 64,200 workers. White-collar workers also face the ax; fully 20,000 will be temporarily dropped at Chrysler. All company officers, from the vice-presidential level up to and including Chairman Townsend, will take December pay cuts. An angry Douglas Fraser, chief of the U.A.W.'s Chrysler Department, blamed the company...
...figure is based on current small daily volume and could shrink rapidly if the pace picks up. Ford, with a 50% third-quarter profit decline and an early November sales dropoff of 36%, is also reducing its work force; layoffs could reach 54,000, including at least 3,000 white-collar staffers in Dearborn. GM's layoffs now total 53,000, and last week the company said that it would close nine plants for part of December, idling 30,000. Reason: GM's earnings have dropped 76.5% so far this year, and early November sales fell...
...bishops' own committee on moral values painted an even more dis mal picture of an America gone morally mad with thievery, white-collar crime, "perjury and other violations of honesty at even the highest level of public life." The committee's report also scored economic exploitation of the poor, widespread pornography, violent entertainment and violent crime, more frequent divorce and not only wide acceptance of abortion but the beginning of acceptance of mercy killing. "In significant ways, contemporary Western culture is nonChristian; some would say it is anti-Christian," the report concluded. "Christian beliefs and values are actively...
...Yankelovich: "No choices of action on the issues were offered them, so many said: Why bother? What difference does it make?" But even though about three-fifths of the registered voters stayed home, there were some noteworthy trends. In the Northeast, the old Democratic coalition of blue-collar ethnics, white-collar liberals and minorities helped elect three Governors: Hugh Carey in New York, Ella Grasso in Connecticut and Michael S. Dukakis in Massachusetts. In the South, a new breed of moderate Democrats ended a decade of growth by Republicans. In the Midwest, big Democratic victories for state offices made...
...warns that inflation is feeding a hatred of work in the working class. "The attitude," he says, "is you work more and more and get less and less, so the work becomes meaningless humiliation." He sees the infection spreading to the middle class and showing in rising rates of white-collar absenteeism from work...