11 days ago by admin

Since president-elect Obama’s historic win, talk radio has been buzzing with the automotive industry. At yesterday’s meeting between president Bush and president-elect Obama, it was the most prominent topic in the news on the internet this morning. On talk radio this morning, one caller estimated th ...

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12 days ago by TelstraUnions

Reports are starting to filter through of behaviour by Telstra management that could be interpreted as intimidation or coercion. In recent days, employees at one site have told of being called into a manager’s office one-by-one and being “brow beaten” into expressing interest in the second version o ...

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12 days ago by nimh

More side-by-side comparisons of how the exit polls break down the presidential vote by demographic group this year with the numbers in 2004 and 2000 - in simple pie charts. Among which groups has Obama done better, by how much, than Kerry and Gore did? Related posts: Selected exit poll comparisons, ...

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12 days ago by Miriam Jones

in Macleans about the CUPE strike at York U and the suggestion that academic workers bargain collectively: “ York University strike is CUPE’s Waterloo: You know a strike lacks support when even The Toronto Star doesn’t get behind it,” Joey Coleman, Macleans.ca (Nov. 8/08). “ Ont. dismisses combined ...

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12 days ago by Cyrus

This $700 billion bailout has not been implemented yet. It is now close to a month and the government hasn't decided how to divvy up the cash. I understand that the bailout is not a handout, rather it's a specified interest loan by the federal government. More on that later. Right now, the train of ...

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12 days ago by admin

Some workers in America strive to make $15 or $20 an hour. Some don’t have benefits, many don’t have pensions, and a lesser number have less. And then there’s the UAW – the United Auto Workers in the big 3 US Automakers: “Base wages average about $28 an hour. GM officials say the average reaches $39 ...

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13 days ago by TelstraUnions

Telstra employees will vote later this month on whether to take protected industrial action in support of better wages and conditions, including an unlimited number of 24-hour stoppages. The Australian Industrial Relations Commission has approved a secret ballot to begin on November 21. The ballots ...

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13 days ago by TelstraUnions

The looming trouble at Telstra is in sharp contrast with constructive negotiations for a workplace agreement with the Terria consortium that is also bidding for the multi-billion dollar National Broadband Network project. Telstra is playing a dangerous game in its hardline stance towards the governm ...

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13 days ago by Pam

See what $450 Million will get you? Labor’s No. 1 priority is a piece of legislation called the Employee Free Choice Act, also known as the card-check bill. The bill would give workers the right to join a union as soon as a majority of employees at a workplace signed cards saying they wanted one. Bu ...

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13 days ago by Big Dog

Copyright © 2008 Big Dog. Visit the original article at http://www.onebigdog.net/let-the-automakers-fail/.What is it with the American government and businesses? If businesses, such as oil companies, are successful then government wants to punish them with windfall profits taxes and if businesses ar ...

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