Mr. MCALINDEN: GM's offering to basically retire or transfer 18, 000 of its most expensive production workers.
Nominal wage gains of 3.7% for production workers were offset by surges in energy and food prices.
And the third is Aleksandar Zuza of a Swedish trade union, IF Metall, which represents production workers at Saab.
Kauderer walked through the half-finished room Tuesday as production workers scurried around her.
America's top bosses earn over 300 times more than production workers on average.
But pay has lagged behind, and the wages of production workers have stagnated.
They panicked at year-end 2008, closing down assembly lines and terminating tens of thousands of production workers of long seniority.
Mulliner keeps close records of each vehicle's assembly, helping the production workers detect whether any flaws were made and at which point.
Some of the first places to offer rebates, such as New Mexico and Louisiana, now have impressive sound stages and a deep pool of production workers.
One of the major factors associated with this decline is, in my view, the decline in unionization, which eliminates the major source of wage growth for middle-wage production workers.
Our latest estimates of aggregate weekly payrolls (workers X hours X hourly pay) for production workers still shows a downshift in 2012, though that is likely to be revised up.
Thanks to the fragmentation of production, Chinese workers are doing the low-skill parts of producing computers.
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During production surges, workers may put in another 10 hours of weekend overtime, for which they get double-rate pay.
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As Toyota discovered with lean manufacturing, production-line workers, given the chance, can come up with plenty of good ideas to improve productivity.
Speeding up production meant that workers came home knackered.
It is widely agreed that the best way to do this is to bring in more robots, more machines and a greater degree of automation to help speed up production, and workers in the car industry have had to become much more flexible in their attitudes to work.
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Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people) said today it will idle three auto-production plants because of its Firestone tire recall, taking 6, 000 workers off the production lines.
To meet their production goal, these workers would have to stay at the factory until morning.
Oil companies like BP and Anadarko are hurriedly shutting in production and evacuating all workers from Gulf facilities.
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Concentrating on a single vessel type helped to boost productivity, as the yard refined its production methods and rejigged workers' pay to reflect qualifications and experience.
U.S. factories and workers are more likely to be collaborating with Chinese factories and workers in production of the same goods than they are to be competing directly.
In contrast, across all age groups and education levels, government figures show that the average age-adjusted hourly wage for workers in production and non supervisor roles have, in fact, risen 3% in the same time period.
The shift from coal is reverberating across Appalachia, where mining companies are laying off workers and cutting production.
Yet those big plants became unwieldy in all sorts of ways, from handling inventory to training workers to keeping production flowing smoothly.
Similar incentive plans reappeared in early twentieth-century factories, with managers dangling the promise of cash rewards if their workers reached certain production levels.
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It will cut 1, 500 workers to streamline production and lower costs.
If he invests more capital in the business to expand production, or hires more workers to increase output, that may result in higher net taxable income.
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Sharp declines in commodity prices and demand for metals have led Kazakhstan's big mining companies to cut production and send thousands of workers on leave at half-pay.
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Earlier this month, Corus, an Anglo-Dutch steel group, said it will lay off 6, 000 workers and cut production by one-fifth in Britain, where operations have been ravaged by sterling's strength.
Think of it as the yin to the yang of Foxconn, the assembler of gadgets for Apple and others, which has more than 1 million Chinese workers on its production lines.
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