by Wally Northway Published: September 30,2010
Tags: labor, manufacturing, strikes
OMNOVA Solutions Inc. of Fairlawn, Ohio, reported net income of $3.5 million, or $0.08 per diluted share, for the third quarter ended Aug. 31, 2010, compared to net income of $10.1 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2009. Included in the third quarter of 2010 were non-recurring expenses totaling $6.7 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 16,2010
Tags: airports, labor, transportation, travel, unions
LONDON — Britain’s airports operator and a union are holding talks in an attempt to avert strikes that could close the country’s major airports later this month. Ground staff voted last week in favor of walkouts at airports including Heathrow, Stansted, Glasgow and Edinburgh. BAA has said it will have to shut down the airports [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 21,2010
Tags: automobile industry, labor
TOKYO — Around 300 workers at a Japanese auto parts plant in China went on strike today to demand higher wages, the latest in a string of labor disputes to hit foreign companies there. Japanese company Omron Corp. said the strike forced its factory in Guangzhou, southern China, to halt some production. The Chinese plant, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 9,2010
Tags: automobile industry, compensation, labor, labor relations, manufacturing, unions
NAGOYA, Japan — Toyota Motor Corp. is open to raising the wages of workers in China, where a series of strikes have disrupted its operations in that fast-growing market, the automaker’s president said today. Akio Toyoda said raising wages in China would bring some benefits, like helping to create a middle class of consumers who [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: July 6,2010
Tags: healthcare, labor, labor unions, nurses, nursing
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Thousands of Minnesota nurses began going to the polls early today to vote on a tentative labor agreement with 14 hospitals that averted a strike set for this week. The 12,000 members of Minnesota Nurses Association are voting from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. at locations in St. Paul and Brooklyn Park. [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 23,2010
Tags: automobile industry, labor, labor unions, manufacturing
ROME — Fiat promised today to work with unions in Italy to gain concessions so it can move production of the new Panda hatchback from Poland to a plant outside Naples often troubled by labor issues. The Turin-based auto company issued a statement following a referendum among workers in which 62 percent voted in favor [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 22,2010
Tags: automobile industry, labor, manufacturing, strikes
TOKYO — Toyota said it stopped production today at one of its main factories in China after a strike at a supplier, the latest labor action to hit a Japanese carmaker in recent weeks in the country. The company’s plant in southern Guangzhou, which represents just under half of Toyota’s total capacity in the country, [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 18,2010
Tags: automobile industry, labor, manufacturing, unions
SHANGHAI — Toyota Motor was assessing the impact today from strikes that hit two of its China-based parts suppliers, the latest unrest among migrant workers who are the backbone of the country’s industrial sector. Workers at a plastic parts factory of Toyota Motor Corp. affiliate Toyoda Gosei Co. in the northeastern city of Tianjin went [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 17,2010
Tags: automobile industry, labor, unions
BLUE SPRINGS — The top priority for the United Auto Workers union is now to organize non-union workers at U.S. Toyota factories and those of other foreign automakers, the union’s new president said today. Bob King, who was elected to the post yesterday, said in his acceptance speech that the union must fight for greater [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 14,2010
Tags: automobile industry, labor, manufacturing, strike, unions
SHANGHAI — Most workers striking to demand higher wages returned to their jobs at a Honda plant in southern China after walking off the production line last week, Honda officials said today. Koji Matsuyama, an official at Honda Lock’s headquarters in Miyazaki, Japan, said the strike ended Saturday, and almost all workers returned to work [...] [...]
Loading ...
