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General Motors is not too big to fail: it's just the right size.(The Week)(General Motors Corp.)(Brief article)
General Motors is not too big to fail: It's just the right size. Even as rival Honda reports a sweet little 8 percent bump in quarterly profits, the big American automakers are foundering under the burden of expensive health-care and retirement commitments, the long tail of several generations' worth of extortionate contracts with the United Auto Workers. U.S. automakers are also suffering from poor management: GM and Ford have responded glacially to consumers' desire for more fuel-efficient vehicles, and those $100 fill-ups aren't doing anything at all for Hummer sales. There is quiet talk of a bailout. Senator McCain has said that he does not favor such a move but ...
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UNITED AUTO WORKERS ENDORSE "FIVE TOGETHER" SCHOOL BOARD...28 /PRNewswire/ -- The United Auto Workers (U.A.W.), which represents...Bob Nece, chairman of the United Auto Workers Community Action Council for Cuyahoga...
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...illustrated history of the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) from its emergence to its separation from the United Auto Workers (UAW) and developments subsequent...States declined, while the Canadian auto workers were able to build an independent...
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- News wire article from: United Press International June 4, 2002 700+ words
...Nev., Jun 04, 2002 Retiring United Auto Workers President Stephen Yokich urged 2,000...Thursday after eight years as United Auto Workers president. He is expected to be succeeded...Yokich said the 701,000-member United Auto Workers union had reversed a decades-long...
- Auto Workers, Caterpillar agree on concessions. (United Automobile Workers,...
- Magazine article from: Monthly Labor Review September 1, 1986 700+ words
Auto Workers, Caterpillar agree on concessions The Auto Workers agreed to a 28-month contract with Caterpillar...Elsewhere in the industry, Deere & Co. and the Auto Workers agreed to extend their contract to October 17, 1986...
Source: HighBeam Research, General Motors is not too big to fail: it's just the right size.(The...