DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 15 (UPI) — Outsourcing, a trend that has taken U.S. automakers on a global search for cheaper parts will, in part, be headed back home, a report said FridayFord Motor Co. will be the first of Detroit’s Big Three [...]
DEARBORN, Mich., Feb. 15 (UPI) — Ford Motor Co. is moving aggressively to sell its buyout program to its U.S. union workforce with enticements of tuition, health benefits and cash.The buyouts that insiders say is an attempt to reduce the payroll by [...]
SYDNEY, Feb. 15 (UPI) — Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s suggestion that private companies temporarily freeze wages for the country’s top businessmen has fallen on deaf ears.Macquarie Bank, where retiring Chief Executive Allan Moss made $33 million a year, declined to comment [...]
DETROIT, Feb. 15 (UPI) — As the Big Three U.S. automobile makers target job reductions for 2008, unions are hard pressed to maintain high factory wages, a report said Friday.General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler LLC have all announced plans [...]
A state board is hoping Disney is enchanted enough with a Utah financial incentive that it grows its video-game development operations here.
The Governor’s Office of Economic Development Board on Friday approved a $5.25 million tax-rebate for Disney Interactive Studios Inc. if the company adds more [...]
Delta Air Lines Inc. employees would get a chance after a merger to share their views about how to blend in another carrier’s work force, Delta’s chief executive officer Richard Anderson said Friday.
Anderson’s comments came as Delta’s flight attendants prepare to vote on whether to [...]
Striking Hollywood writers are going back to work.
The Writers Guild of America said its members voted Tuesday to end their devastating, three-month strike that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill.
Writers will be back on the job Wednesday after voting in Beverly Hills and New York.
“At the end of the day, everybody won. It was [...]
LOS ANGELES —
Lights, camera, action — but first, here come the writers. Members of the Writers Guild of America were planning a return to work Wednesday after voting to end their strike on its 100th day, thus allowing Hollywood to jump-start stalled production of numerous TV sitcoms and dramas.”It will be all hands on [...]
LOS ANGELES Striking Hollywood writers are going back to work.
The Writers Guild of America said its members voted Tuesday to end their devastating, three-month strike that brought the entertainment industry to a standstill.
Writers will be back on the job today after [...]
LINCOLN, Kan. The line of towering wind turbines stands motionless on the ridgeline above Interstate 70 in central Kansas, Y-shaped silhouettes amid the swirling snow.
Despite the weather, dozens of technicians are working to get the 10-mile-long Smoky Hills Wind Farm ready to begin producing [...]
