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	<title>USW Blog &#187; Ford</title>
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		<title>The New American Economy: Win the Lottery, Get a Job</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2011/07/17/the-new-american-economy-win-the-lottery-get-a-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anthony Montana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stunning, just stunning. Nearly 17,000 people applied for jobs at a Ford plant in Kentucky, according to USA Today.&#160;The applications are now going into a lottery and Ford will determine who gets to proceed to be considered for the 1,800 jobs that pay&#160;$15.51 an hour.&#160; No doubt not&#160;everyone who applied is unemployed, to be sure–but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Traitors vs. Working Class Heroes</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/03/corporate-traitors-vs-working-class-heroes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/08/03/corporate-traitors-vs-working-class-heroes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Free Speech Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alcoa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CEO David M. Cote]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Honeywell]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=4667</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Honeywell Corp. plant in Metropolis, Ill., workers process “yellow cake” uranium into a highly refined “green salt” for the atomic power industry and nuclear weapons. The United Steelworkers union has been negotiating with Honeywell for months.  Despite an offer by the union to continue working without an agreement, corporate “greed-heads” locked out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UAW: U.S. Cars on the Road to Success</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/31/uaw-u-s-cars-on-the-road-to-success/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/31/uaw-u-s-cars-on-the-road-to-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From AFL-CIO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrysler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[General Motors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tula Connell AFL-CIO Managing Editor Higher profits and new fuel-efficient models have put American-made cars back on the road again—with the help of taxpayers and the workers who have worked closely with the Big Three automakers to ensure their success. In July, Ford posted a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit of $2.6 billion—some $1 billion more than analysts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Decoupling of Corporate Profits From Jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/27/the-great-decoupling-of-corporate-profits-from-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2010/07/27/the-great-decoupling-of-corporate-profits-from-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Robert Reich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Reich Former U.S. Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley Second-quarter earnings reports are coming in, and they&#8217;re making Wall Street smile. Corporate profits are up. And big American companies are sitting on a gigantic pile of money. The 500 largest non-financial firms held almost a trillion dollars in the second quarter, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota Republicans should cut their own pay</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/21/toyota-republicans-should-cut-their-own-pay/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/21/toyota-republicans-should-cut-their-own-pay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President President Bush took to the TV Friday to announce that he wouldn’t walk past the financial crash of America’s Big Three automakers and do nothing to save their lives. Refusing resuscitation, Bush said, would be irresponsible during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. A week earlier, 31 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Jeep; Save the Nation</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/05/save-the-jeep-save-the-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/12/05/save-the-jeep-save-the-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.usw.org/?p=204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President In 1941, car manufacturer Willys-Overland demonstrated the strength and sturdiness of its new Army scout vehicle – the Jeep &#8212; to Congress by driving it up the U.S. Capitol steps. Invented and manufactured in the USA, the Jeep would become an icon of American ingenuity, durability and mechanical ability. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress bails out those who shower before work, but not those who shower after work</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/25/congress-bails-out-those-who-shower-before-work-but-not-those-who-shower-after-work/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/25/congress-bails-out-those-who-shower-before-work-but-not-those-who-shower-after-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo W. Gerard International President     Congress drove the Big Three CEOs out of Washington, D.C. last week, ordering them not to return with their tin cups until they could guarantee their companies would be viable after a $25 billion bailout. Just days later, Citigroup, a bank that had already received a $25 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Henry Paulson sink Detroit?</title>
		<link>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/20/will-henry-paulson-sink-detroit/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.usw.org/2008/11/20/will-henry-paulson-sink-detroit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dean Baker Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research Henry Paulson&#8217;s main claim to fame is getting just about everything wrong in his tenure as Treasury secretary. However, he now stands to gain lasting notoriety as the person who destroyed the domestic U.S. auto industry, and the economies of the Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana [...]]]></description>
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