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Close to 300,000 blue-and white-collar workers are now out of jobs. Nearly a dozen auto plants have closed, probably forever, and 1,469 car dealers have boarded up their doors. Looking at a worst of all possible worlds, which would be the result if recent trends continue, Chrysler Chairman Lee A. Iacocca says: "If you take that scenario, by next April we're bankrupt. By October, Ford is bankrupt. By the following October, GM is bankrupt...
...longer suffice. The industry's billions are now being spent to design and build cars that meet the demands of the new fuel-short era. Automakers are stripping clean their plants and are rebuilding them with new automated machinery that will increase productivity. Workers, plant supervisors and white-collar executives are searching for ways to improve quality and output. Both Government and business are setting aside past acrimony and seeking ways to revitalize Detroit. The roles and responsibilities of workers, managers and Government officials in the auto industry are rapidly changing, and the new industrial order developed there will...
Instead, workers and management share the same objectives. Each plant has its white-collar and blue-collar quality-control circles, in which three to ten employees meet on their own time to analyze the standards of work and ways to improve the product. The rewards for usable ideas are mostly psychological. Unlike General Motors' high-paying suggestion program, which offers employees up to $10,000 for useful innovations, a Japanese firm's award of $600 for a patentable idea is considered generous. At Nissan, maker of Datsun, an original proposal is usually rewarded with a ballpoint...
...clerk in a government import-export company in Warsaw at 8 a.m.; his status as a white-collar worker means little, in fact, because the same frustrations are shared by all. The morning bus ride takes only 40 minutes, but the congestion at rush hour is suffocating. Thus he often rides with...
...together, many of the party's basic elements are dwindling in numbers and clout. Union membership is declining, down from about a third of all nonfarm workers in the mid-'50s to less than a fourth today. Blue-collar workers are a shrinking minority of the work force (33%); white-collar workers have become an outright majority (51%). Fourteen of the 20 biggest U.S. cities, traditional Democratic strongholds, lost population during the 1970s, some drastically, as residents moved to the largely Republican suburbs. The cities that did gain in population tended to be in the Republican-dominated Sunbelt?Houston, Phoenix...