Tag: powerful-labor
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VW brand chief ‘confident’ of solving cost-cutting row with labor
Volkswagen's top brand executive is confident that management and labor will solve a dispute over cost-cutting at the core autos division and signaled readiness on Sunday to meet some of workers' demands. Volkswagen's (VW) powerful labor leaders earlier this month accused brand chief executive Herbert Diess of betraying workers and trying to use the diesel…
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VW brand chief ‘confident’ of solving cost-cutting row with labor
Volkswagen's top brand executive is confident that management and labor will solve a dispute over cost-cutting at the core autos division and signaled readiness on Sunday to meet some of workers' demands. Volkswagen's (VW) powerful labor leaders earlier this month accused brand chief executive Herbert Diess of betraying workers and trying to use the diesel…
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Once a symbol of decline, Pennsylvania tests limits of Trump’s appeal
By Howard Schneider BETHLEHEM, Pa. (Reuters) – With a rusting steel mill in its center, this Pennsylvania city would seem fertile ground for Donald Trump's campaign and its vision of a declining America that only he can fix. In the two decades since the blast furnaces of Bethlehem Steel went silent, the local economy did…
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Grief and frustration as Nepal marks earthquake anniversary
In Kathmandu, the capital, Prime Minister K. P. Oli led a day of mourning, placing a wreath at the remains of the Dharahara tower that collapsed during the quake, killing 132 people. Among them was grief-stricken Surya Bahadur Shrestha, praying for his late father who was crushed to death by a building in the city.…