Word: white-collar
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...latest recession has hit white-collar workers particularly hard, both in terms of layoffs and slippage in their real wages. "These people can't believe what is happening to them," says Illinois opinion pollster Mike McKeon. "They decided they didn't want to work in factories, so they learned how to use computers. They were rewarded with service-sector jobs in the 1980s, but now they're out on the street and no one wants them." Open season has been declared on corporate bureaucrats. "The middle manager has gone out of vogue in corporate America," says Lacey. "Indeed, the word...
...long as you have your health . . . " a familiar saying declares. But white-collar employees of General Motors who want to be certain of their health will soon have to ante up for it themselves. GM, having spent more than $3.4 billion on health care for its employees last year -- or $900 per vehicle -- has decided to apply the brakes. Last week 100,000 office-level employees at the company's finance unit and its U.S. car and truck division received memos informing them that they will be asked to pay a monthly premium of as yet unrevealed size for their...
Thus, it is no simple matter to devise a political campaign that can appeal to Southern blacks as well as whites, to Florida motel operators as well as Texas bankers, to South Carolina cotton growers as well as Virginia lawyers, to blue-collar as well as white-collar workers. The South, once derided as a cultural and political backwater, has come to resemble the rest of America, both physically and in its social and political attitudes, more closely than at any other time in the country's history. "Today," says Carter, whose candidacy helped end the South's isolation, "Oregon...
...been in a situation quite like this," says Janet Norwood, the former U.S. commissioner of labor statistics. "It used to be that when we had a recession, everyone would wait to be rehired. But the psychology now is that many of these jobs are not going to come back." White-collar workers are feeling the pinch as never before. Harvard economist James Medoff points out that white-collar employees constitute 36% of the country's unemployed workers, compared with 22% during the 1982 slump...
...York State's massive university system. At the same time, two streams of financial fortune, one from an overheated economy in nearby Toronto and the other from the 1988 free-trade agreement between the U.S. and Canada, have helped replace the city's dying manufacturing base with a large white-collar force...