The Last Word: Dirty Work Required
November 12, 2009
Feature: Managers who cannot do the tough stuff--like having to let people go--are not really managers at all. (11/12/2009)
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Ex-GMers Band Together in Job Hunt
October 27, 2009
In October 2008, 23 years and four months later, she accepted a buyout and left the only employer she had ever know.
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A Shift in Union Relations
October 27, 2009
Feature: One of the biggest measures of how much has really changed between the old and the new General Motors will be its relationship with the United Auto Workers union, former employees say.
(10/27/2009)
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Back to the Drawing Board--Can a New Company ...
October 27, 2009
Feature: General Motors is betting that a new company culture--one emphasizing risk-taking and independent decision-making--can help reverse its fortunes. But the carmaker has been down the culture-change road many times before. (10/27/2009)
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Outsider Pick for Human Resources Chief Stirs ...
October 27, 2009
Feature: Other companies have taken the path of GM and hired non-HR professionals to lead a corporation's human resources department. (10/27/2009)
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Ford's UAW Workforce Down to 47,000 After Latest ...
July 24, 2009
News: The departures, scheduled to be completed 'in the next few weeks,' take the number of active UAW employees down from 95,000 in 2003.
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The Last Word: Losing Sight
May 21, 2009
Feature: Rather than debating 'lifetime' jobs, or the Employee Free Choice Act, or the organized labor issue du jour, I would rather we had a discussion about the real issues workers care about. (5/21/2009)
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Caution Urged as Workers and Management Look to ...
May 1, 2009
News: One expert notes companies that share ownership broadly with employees are less likely to go out of business. Such firms also generate more jobs and create on average three times more retirement benefits than non-employee-ownership companie
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Chrysler, UAW Reach Agreement, Boosting Prospects ...
April 27, 2009
News: The deal alters Chrysler's financial obligations to the union's retiree health care plan and comes four days before a US deadline for Chrysler to tie up with Fiat.
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GM Says 600 UAW Workers Have Changed Their Minds ...
April 6, 2009
... , April 3, that about 600 hourly workers who tentatively accepted a special attrition retirement or buyout package last month have changed their minds.
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