Factory Workers

Ford Motor Co. Doesn't Need These Autoworkers Anymore

AP | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Autoworkers, Retirement, Factory Workers, Industry, Detroit, Early Retirement, Ford, Auto Unions, Auto Industry, Ford Motor Co, Ap, Video, Business News

DETROIT (AP) — About 1,700 Ford Motor Co. factory workers have decided to take early retirement offers and will leave the company by June 1. ...

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The Cost Of Hiring A Factory Worker In The U.S. Vs. China

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Insourcing, Video, Workers, Germany, Insourcing American Jobs, Factory Workers, Chinese Economy, Manufacturing, United States, China Economy, China, Business News

Since 2001, the United States has lost 2.8 million manufacturing jobs to China -- that despite U.S. factory workers being far more productive. Par...

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As Agencies Debate Rules, Dust Explosions Killing Factory Workers

AP | TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Video, Factory Regulations, Regulations, Coal-Dust-Explosion, Dust Explosions Factory Workers, Labor-News, Factory Workers, Business News, Factory Accidents, Dust Explosion, Factory Worker Deaths, Business News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When an accumulation of sugar dust ignited and blew up the Imperial Sugar plant in Port Wentworth, Ga., in 2008, killing 14 a...

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We Do the Work

David Macaray | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Labor, Factory Workers, Workers, Laborers, Industrial Workers, Working Class, Business News

While it's the workers who keep the operation running smoothly, it's management who gets the credit. It's management who gets the credit, the glory, the promotions, and, ultimately, the compensation.

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Health Enables Returns: Workplace Program for Women Delivers Business Benefits

Aron Cramer | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Women, Roi, Health, Herproject, Worker Safety, Factory Workers, Business Women, Business News

Many companies debate how business can align its objectives with urgent social needs. With the world's economy stuck in neutral, the opportunity to unlock women's potential is too important an opportunity to pass up.

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'Model workplaces' not always so safe amidst deaths and avoidable accidents

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Factory, Workplace Safety, Factory Workers, Osha, Politics News

Despite deaths and avoidable accidents, companies stay in OSHA's 'voluntary protection' clubBy Chris Hamby, iWatch NewsFirst in a series, "Model Workp...

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GM To Offer Buyouts To Thousands Of Skilled Workers

AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: GM Buyouts, Detroit Automakers, GM Plants, GM Factory Jobs, Factory Workers, General Motors Buyouts, Business News

DETROIT — General Motors Co. is offering buyouts to several thousand skilled trades workers at 14 plants around the U.S. The company estimates ...

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Many U.S. Firms Live 'In Perpetual State Of Recession' Despite Rising Profits, Productivity

Bloomberg | Craig Torres and Anthony Feld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: S, Ups, Corporate Profits, Factory Jobs, Productiity, Factory Workers, Unemployment Crisis, Coprorate Margins, Uneployment Rate, U.S. Productivity, Operating Margins, Business News

Companies slashed 8.5 million jobs during the worst recession since the Great Depression, while also slowing capital investment plans. Campbell, the w...

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Are China and America Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lobbying, Income Inequality, Lobbyists, Factory Workers, Bric, United States, Capitalism, China, Japan, Communism, Indonesia, Business News, Economic Growth, Rural China, Minimum Wage, Inequality, Economy, Politics News

I recently discussed challenges that China faces as it seeks to continue its economic growth including: (1) Wealth inequality, where a small percent o...

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Is China Poised for Implosion? What Would the Communist Manifesto Predict?

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Deng Xiaoping probably would be concerned to see that Chinese population policies and practices as well as the engine of capitalism appears to be creating a Marxian nightmare of bourgeois and proletariat.

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How Long Will China's Economy Be the Second Largest?

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Minimum Wage, Indonesia, Factory Workers, Economy, United States, Vietnam, Japan, Economic Growth, China, Bric, Rural China, Business News

While China's manufacturing dominates much of the world's consumer products, this will not likely last forever.

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Honda Strike: The End of Cheap Chinese Labor?

nytimes.com | KEITH BRADSHER and DAVID BARBOZA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chinese Laborers, Honda Stike, China Institute of Industrial Relations, Factory Workers, China, Honda, China Labor Bulletin, Business News

A strike at an auto-parts factory owned by Honda in southern China has unexpectedly become a cause célèbre in the nation's struggle with income ineq...

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Chrysler ADDS Jobs In Detroit

AP | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chrysler, Big Three Automakers, Unemployment, Jobs, Factory Workers, Manufacturing, Auto Industry, Detroit, Business News

DETROIT — Chrysler Group LLC gave a big boost to the battered Michigan economy Friday when it announced plans to add about 1,100 workers to help...

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More Government Bailouts May Be on Way

AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Bear Stears, Investment Banks, U.S. Economy, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns Bailout, Factory Workers, Governments, Bailout, Economy, Business News

WASHINGTON — The economy is listing. So it must be time to bail. While there is little enthusiasm for government bailouts in general, voters ar...

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