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Schäuble compared the present financial crisis with the fall of the Berlin Wall twenty years earlier. “The financial crisis will change the world as powerfully as did the fall of the [Berlin] Wall. The balance between America, Asia and Europe is shifting dramatically,”

Rundt 1960 tok en ung Tor Halvorsen over formannsklubba i arbeiderforeninga, og ble et symbol på samarbeidslinja mellom LO /Arbeiderpartiet og bedriftsledelsen.

- I hans tid ble 1500 ansatte rasjonalisert bort på Herøya. Rett etterpå dro’n til Oslo og ble LO-sekretær. Det er klart at vi blei påvirka av det der.

But the role of union leaders means that they are in favour of reforming capitalism rather than overthrowing it. That means they will only take things so far.

Rank and file action had won – and saved the union in the process. Management has attempted to chip away at its strength since, and has also launched full-scale offensives, such as the one that that we are seeing now.

The vote is a historical milestone. It is the first rejection of a national contract since 1982, and the first at Ford since 1976. In the intervening three decades, the UAW has devoted all of its energies to suppressing the resistance of auto workers.

These threats will be intensified. There will be a drive to impose concessions in work rules and other productivity measures. The threat of removing work, cutting jobs and shifts and even closing entire plants will be used to pit plant against plant and local against local, and to pit American workers against workers in Canada and elsewhere in order to divide, weaken and demoralize the work force.

The fall in consumer spending, the largest since December, is in part the result of the end of the government’s cash-for-clunkers program on August 24. Economists have said that this program, among others, accounts for much of the increase in third-quarter consumer spending and GDP.

The further reduction in staffing is to be offset by greater speed-up and increased workloads. Managers have already imposed shift changes and revisions to delivery routes.

“But if they refuse, we have positioned things in such a way as there is shareholder, customer and internal support for implementation of change without agreement” (emphasis added).

The government is the only “shareholder” in Royal Mail.

The great irony of course is that it wasn’t the voters who plundered the public treasury, but rather, the super-wealthy who plundered the public and subverted democracy. But this is worse than mere iro

"We are facing an unprecedented mismatch of skills and personnel. Unemployment numbers will rise from 18 million to 22 million this year, even though there are four million vacancies that employers cannot fill,"

EOI became one of the key points of consensus between the Bank and Southeast Asia's governments. Both realized import substitution industrialization could only continue if domestic purchasing power were increased via significant redistribution of income and wealth, and this was simply out of the question for the region's elites. Export markets, especially the relatively open U.S. market, appeared to be a painless substitute.

The National Labor Committee reported that Kiryung supervisors kept production quotas so high that women couldn’t take bathroom breaks. Shifts could stretch to 38 hours, but workers received only two 10-minute breaks, in addition to meals.

By forcing claimants on Incapacity Benefit (IB) to undertake new work capability assessments the government plans to move an initial 260,000 people from IB onto Job Seekers Allowance (JSA). This will mean having their benefit cut from the already paltry IB basic level of £89 a week to just £60.50 a week for JSA.

Over the past few years, in preparation for introducing the bill, the government and the media have demonised benefit claimants, particularly those on IB, as shirkers and an intolerable burden on society.

The renewables industry is subsidised, as it is everywhere, but the country now gets 22% of its electricity from this source, and three of the world’s five biggest renewables companies are Spanish.