HEROES: Oakleigh R. Stickle, now 89; John J. Conlon Jr., now 82; George McDermott, now 81; John H. Tiedemann, now 77. (Black and white photos) Black and white photos by John Mongillo Sr./Register:
DETROIT - Ford Motor Co. will pay its U.S. factory workers a $6,000 signing bonus and add thousands of U.S. factory jobs as part of a four-year contract deal reached Tuesday with the United Auto Workers union. Ford plans to add 5,750 U.S. factory jobs under the deal, on top of 6,250 it announced earlier this year, for a total of 12,000 jobs by 2015. It also pledged to invest $4.8 billion in its U.S. factories.
The following day, over 200 Chicago-area labor activists and religious leaders attended a spirited rally outside the Republic factory. With placards reading "You got bailed out, We got sold out" and "Don't Steal Christmas," speakers expressed frustration not only with dieir employer, but also the company's primary creditor, Bank of America, arguing that the bank's refusal to extend Republic a line of credit had caused the company to suddenly close the factory. The workers who are asking for the benefits and payments that they have earned, I think they're absolutely right and understand that what's happening to them is reflective of what's happening across this economy," [Barack Obama] said. "I think that these workers, if they have earned their benefits and their pay, then these compan...
Police are investigating the charitable giving of some Christiansburg factory workers who donated funds -- triggering a company match -- to a unit of Giles County schools, officials said Wednesday. Corning Inc. spokesman Dan Collins said the company is taking unspecified action against an undisclosed number of employees of its Christiansburg plant after an internal investigation revealed potential misuse of Corning's charitable-giving matching program.
DETROIT - Ford Motor Co. has offered buyout or retirement incentive packages to all of its 41,000 U.S. hourly workers as it tries to further reduce its factory work force. Ford, the healthiest of Detroit's three automakers and the only one to avoid government aid and bankruptcy protection, still has more workers than it needs to produce cars and trucks at current sales levels, said company spokesman Mark Truby.
CHICAGO -- Workers who got three days' notice that their factory was shutting its doors have occupied the building and say they won't go home without assurances they'll get severance and vacation pay. About 250 union workers occupied the Republic Windows and Doors plant in shifts Saturday while union leaders outside criticized a Wall Street bailout they say is leaving laborers behind.
We have got to stop sending jobs overseas. To those of you in the audience who are business people, pretty simple: If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for factory workers and you can move your factory south of the border, pay a dollar an hour for labor, have no environmental controls, and no retirement, and you don't care about anything but making money, there will be a giant sucking sound going south. -- Ross Perot on free trade during the 1992 election.
HEROES: Oakleigh R. Stickle, now 89; John J. Conlon Jr., now 82; George McDermott, now 81; John H. Tiedemann, now 77. (Black and white photos) Black and white photos by John Mongillo Sr./Register:
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