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The UAW's Mr. King said Friday that the agreement at Spring Hill will allow for more flexibility by limiting the number of classifications for skilled-trades workers, but does not have the kind of substitution of lower wage workers for veteran employees that helped win GM's support for building the Sonic at its Lake Orion plant.
GM's Small-Car Plan Matthew Dolan 2011
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General Motors Co. is offering buyouts and early-retirement incentives in hopes of persuading up to 3,000 skilled-trades workers to leave U.S. plants.
GM Offers Buyouts to Plant Workers Sharon Terlep 2010
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Getting skilled-trades status was long a rite of passage for factory workers because the jobs pay better and are less grueling than assembly-line work.
GM Offers Buyouts to Plant Workers Sharon Terlep 2010
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The men's words, which convey gratitude mixed with despair, offer a touching reminder of the simple power that skilled-trades jobs have always had to put food on American tables.
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The auto maker is offering buyouts and early-retirement incentives in hopes of shedding as many as 3,000 skilled-trades jobs.
GM Offers Buyouts 2010
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Those fig ures are down from the 81% of production workers and 71% skilled-trades workers who approved the original 2007 labor pact.
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SAT 1000-1099, two $14,000 vouchers--take a skilled-trades course, or go to a JC and try to qualify for more vouchers afterward.
Inefficient Subsidies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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According to the UAW, 59% of Ford production workers and 58% of skilled-trades workers voted for the modifications to the agreement in balloting that took place over about a week.
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A typical UAW-represented skilled-trades worker at GM earned $32.32 per hour of straight-time labor.
The Troll Under the Bridge Loans: Corporate Profit-Taking and Executive Compensation 2008
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It's looking to get that closer to $27 for production workers, or $35 an hour including skilled-trades workers, who typically are paid more.
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