Its chief executive, Steve Miller, has given warning that he may ask the bankruptcy court to overturn the firm's current labour contract.
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In separate negotiations between employers and unions over a loosening of the principal labour contract, he has imposed a deadline of December.
In its plea for bail-out funds last month, the company promised to shed up to 31, 000 jobs, close nine plants and renegotiate a four-year labour contract which it signed with the United Auto Workers (UAW) in 2007.
They include a labour-contract law that came into effect on January 1st and which many employers fear could make it much harder to fire underperforming workers.
As Mr Field put it, the 10% ruse violated the implicit contract between the New Labour modernisers and their parliamentary foot-soldiers: look after the needy, the rank-and-file said, and we'll trust you on the rest.
Stephen Hester, the RBS chief executive recruited on a commercial contract by the previous Labour government to salvage the stricken bank, found himself pilloried on tabloid front pages (photographs of him riding to hounds saw heavy use).
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Most of them were contract workers, explained the boss, employed by labour brokers and therefore not his responsibility.
The Audit Commission's report warned the Labour-controlled council it must improve in its compliance with contract procedure rules, demonstrating good value for money, reporting to elected members and dealing with whistleblowers.
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As firms cut back, the proportion of full-time contract jobs has fallen from almost 80% of the labour force in 1990 to 66% in 2007, according to the OECD.
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The supplier in question was Stephan Goldner, who had won the Admiralty contract in 1845 by undercutting all rivals, thanks to cheap labour working at his meat factory in what is now Romania.
And the Lib Dems said the Labour initiative was a "pale comparison" of the government's youth contract scheme and did not stand up to scrutiny.
Foxconn, the contract manufacturer whose biggest customer is Apple, is preparing genuinely representative labour union elections in its factories in China for the first time, a powerful sign of the changes in the workshop of the world demanded by an increasingly restive workforce.
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