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The two lead sponsors of a bill in the Wisconsin Legislature promoting the use of ethanol and the purchase of cars that run on an 85% blend of the corn-based fuel have financial ties to the ethanol and automotive industries, records show.
State Rep. Eugene Hahn (R-Cambria) bought $20,000 in shares of United Wisconsin Grain Producers LLC under his wife's name when the company was starting up in 2003. The Friesland-based company produces 40 million gallons of ethanol a year, and the plant is under construction to double its capacity.
...(D-Janesville) is president of United Auto Workers Local 95. General Motors Corp. pays his salary. Shheridan is also a former assembly line worker at GM and has nearly 30 years with the...
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Employment has shifted from a relatively stable and secure relation in which shareholders bore the risks associated with the market and firms buffered the risks vis-à-vis workers to a dynamic relation characterized by employment insecurity and individual responsibility. Modern businesses face new management challenges stemming from decreased employee loyalty and difficulties in supervising and controlling the workforce. Firms have responded by implementing internal branding programs that parallel consumer marketing programs but target workers rather than consumers. The goal of such programs is to re-align employees’ self-interest with that of the firm, persuading employees to internalize the firm’s brand so that they “live the brand” and react instinctively “on-brand.” Identity-based br...
... story for service businesses, where front-line workers are the primary point of contact with cons... a guaranteed level geared to seniority and salary at the firm. 42 In defined-benefit plans, the emp... products and furniture which require assembly, this phenomenon suggests a willingness by consume...
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...'s employment were spent at GM's Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. From Spring 1997... to those first coming off of the assembly line for full inspection. King and Million, Ford assert... evidenced by a decrease in wage or salary, a less distinguished title, a material loss of be... and then terminated for assaulting a co-worker, Mr. Ford was reinstated as an employee. When he r...
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By Steve Bennish, Ken McCall and Tim Tresslar Staff Writers
DAYTON -- Montgomery County endured the steepest slide in payroll earnings among all metro counties in Ohio during the past decade, a Dayton Daily News examination shows.
... just want it under rules that are fair to workers in all countries. Other countries practice trade a..., including giants like Ford's Lorain Assembly Plant, Clark said. "If you can shut a plant down a...,000 out of work because it boosts the bottom line, Wall Street rewards you," Clark said. "But those ... disabled, and is within $5,000 of his old salary. "Considering how the industry was going and the l...
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... AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA. ALAN MULALLY, PRESIDENT..., in my district, the average manufacturing salary, or the average manufacturing salary across the co... before us will show up on the unemployment line, no matter what happens. This is not about ... St. Louis South assembly plant, another plant that we were hopeful that we ...
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To: AUTO EDITORS
Contact: Greg Gardner, +1-248-649-4490, Greg.Gardner@oliverwyman.com, or Michelle Hill, +1-248-219-4344, Michelle.Hill@oliverwyman.com, both of Oliver Wyman
... in total manufacturing productivity (assembly, stamping,. engine and transmission), each average... floor space, reducing manufacturing time and line length, and increasing capital efficiency. Unfortu... per vehicle measure calculates the total salary and hourly labor content required to produce one v...
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[...] they were cranking out big machines like the Suburban and the Tahoe, those high-strung, gas-guzzling hounds of the American Good Times. The whole town is assembled near the factory, the women in petticoats, the children in patent leather, the men in woolen bowlers. Today, freight trains leaving from Janesville's loading docks take auctioned bits and pieces of the plant to faraway places: welding robots, milling machines, chop saws, drill presses, pipe threaders, drafting tables, salt and pepper shakers. No boat on Lake Michigan. Because in the new world they can build that windmill, or a solar panel, or an electric battery in India, where the minimum pay is less than $3 a day.
...Happy New Year. The Janesville Assembly Plant was everything here, they say. It was a birt... window," says one of the former UAW workers gathered at Zoxx 411 Club and drinking a long, coo... he draws nearly three-quarters of his old salary for the first year of his layoff and half his sala...
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... and Chrysler--helped millions of American workers move into the middle class. . Today, the Big Three... Workers (U.A.W.) union happy and the assembly lines moving: With no Toyotas to worry about, ther...pension. Her father's salary from G.M. helps pay her college tuition. . "Honest...
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... AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA. ALAN MULALLY, PRESIDENT..., which has been a failure, and product lines or is this just life support?. I understand that e... In fact, our Chrysler assembly plant in Newark, some 50, almost 60 years old, wil... A couple of years ago, I cut my own salary unilaterally 50 percent, so I'm willing to -- to b...
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LANSING, Mich. - As a 10-year-old, Rollin Green was awestruck when he saw the line of hulking orange-and-silver robotic arms swinging with rhythmic precision during his first visit to an auto plant - but something impressed him even more: His dad worked there.
As a fifth-grader, Rollin didn't daydream about becoming a baseball player or an astronaut. He wanted to be an autoworker. Just like his father, Mike.
... of four generations of Greens (and GM workers) as he sits in the office of his father, the presi..."Auto assembly-line jobs don't put you on the trajectory to the m...At Oldsmobile, Richard's starting salary was about $2 an hour. More than money, what made b...