Inability of gov't to ban used auto imports alarms industry.
Local automotive assemblers, parts makers and their workers have expressed alarm over the government's inability to enforce laws banning the used of vehicle importation and the importation of right hand drive vehicles. In a letter to the Senate Committee on Government Corporations and Public Enterprises, members of...

Auto industry's unions fear mass layoffs.
Byline: ARIS R. ILAGAN Leaders of the countrys automotive manufacturing firms, labor unions and government officials recently conducted an automotive industry tripartite council congress in anticipation of a massive retrenchment problem should the new vehicle excise tax is implemented. The proposed bill is now on its second...

Analysis; US presidential candidates responding to rising economic fears of voters.
Byline: CAREN BOHAN Reuters SOUTH BEND, Indiana - Facing job losses, rising mortgage rates and higher gasoline prices, US voters in 2008 want their next president above all to listen to their anger and fix the economy. As the US economy sinks into a possible...

Black Detroit and the rise of the UAW. (reprint, 1979).
9780472032198 Black Detroit and the rise of the UAW. (reprint, 1979) Meier, August and Elliott Rudwick. U. of Michigan Press 2007 289 pages $19.95 Paperback HD8081 In this work of social...

New owners appoint new CEO as Chrysler shakes up management.
Byline: KEVIN KROLICKI and DAVID BAILEY DETROIT/CHICAGO, Aug. 6 (Reuters) -- Cerberus Capital Management on Monday named former Home Depot Inc. Chief Executive Robert Nardelli as chairman and chief executive of Chrysler LLC in an executive shakeup just after the private equity firm completed a deal to...

From household bathrooms to the workplace: bringing the Americans with Disabilities Act back to where it belongs: an analysis of Toyota Motor Manufacturing v. Williams.
INTRODUCTION Ella Williams has endured the following impairments over the past ten years: bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome, (1) myotendinitis and myositis bilateral, and thoracic outlet compression. (2) Williams's carpal tunnel syndrome could lead to muscle atrophy and extreme sensory deficits. (3) Her other conditions are equally unpleasant:...

GM's plan to cut 30,000 jobs and close all or part of twelve North American operations is, according to leaders of the United Auto Workers, "disappointing, unfair, and unfortunate".
* GM's plan to cut 30,000 jobs and close all or part of twelve North American operations is, according to leaders of the United Auto Workers, "disappointing, unfair, and unfortunate." Sympathy for laid-off workers is understandable, but it should not prevent our seeing what is truly unfortunate: GM has...

BRIEFLY.
Byline: The Register-Guard METRO Hi-Tech center opening part of annual LCC open house The Lane Community College Business Development Center will hold its annual open house on Thursday from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. The event will also include...

EEOC talked to ex-Hynix recruiter.
Byline: SHERRI BURI McDONALD The Register-Guard As part of its probe into discrimination at Eugene's Hynix factory, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission spent two days taking testimony from Jeff Abraham, the California job recruiter who won a discrimination lawsuit against Hynix in 1999. After...

Taking turbulence models to a new level. (Fast Findings on Fluid Frenzy).
From blood spurting through hearts to winds buffeting cars, fluids swirl and tumble in complex ways that scientists struggle to understand. Now, a new means to efficiently depict fluid turbulence and to calculate its effects promises to influence many branches of science and technology. For example, using...