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Duncan Innes

Electric cars win top awards at Detroit motor show | Environment | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • Duncan Innes on 12 Jan 11
     
    Please note: A panel on eco-friendly cars accompanying a report from the Detroit car show lost a digit on the cost of Tesla's electric Roadster. The correct price is $105,000, not $10,500 as we had it (Our friends electric, 11 January, page 29)
Duncan Innes

Car industry: Danger ahead | The Economist - 0 views

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shared by Duncan Innes on 16 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • It’s happening because of high fuel costs, environmental concerns and ageing populations: older people, with no children and less testosterone, shun big cars and powerful engines. For carmakers, this shift is a problem, because small cars are less profitable than large ones
  • Duncan Innes on 16 Jan 11
     
    Analysis of Car Market in 2011
Duncan Innes

Tesco starts secondhand car business | Business | The Guardian - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...condhand-car-dealership-launch

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shared by Duncan Innes on 03 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Duncan Innes on 03 Apr 11
     
    Tesco diversifies into selling cars
Duncan Innes

General Motors expects decision on Luton plant 'within a month or two' | Business | The... - 0 views

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  • Duncan Innes on 12 Jan 11
     
    Fears for car production in Luton, after flat European sales
jackson cole

Short Term Installment Loans- Meet Any Urgent Commitment of Yours Easily - 0 views

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  • jackson cole on 14 Mar 16
     
    When you take an insurance policy, you are committed to paying a premium every year. Or your bike or car has to undergo its yearly service now. The fact is that neither of these is all that pocket friendly. Since you have to fulfill these commitments and there is no escape where do you turn?
Duncan Innes

Big Three carmakers set for triumphant return as Detroit Auto Show opens | Business | g... - 0 views

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  • Duncan Innes on 12 Jan 11
     
    The rise and rebirth of the big three car makers in the US.
Duncan Innes

BBC News - Frankfurt motor show: Opel mulls upmarket model move - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-14899866

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shared by Duncan Innes on 13 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Duncan Innes on 13 Sep 11
     
    Luxury cars by opel/vaushall - marketing strategy
Simon Brooks

Dispute over trade union rights in soap manufacturer - 0 views

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shared by Simon Brooks on 30 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • manufacturer of household cleaning and detergent products
  • employs about 240 workers, of whom over 150 are union members
  • the enterprise has a relatively high union density
  • ...34 more annotations...
  • A dispute has arisen within PZ Cussons Polska S.A. between the largest representative trade union, NSZZ Solidarnosc, and the company’s chief executive officer (CEO)
  • 50% of the workers are trade union members
  • five trade union organisations
  • membership is widely dispersed
  • Independent Trade Union of Chemical Workers
  • representing 15 workers
  • smallest union
  • largest union
  • Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union Solidarity
  • over 80 workers
  • controversy has a long history
  • 2002 when a dispute arose over certain irregularities concerning the allocation of the employee benefits fund
  • trade unions only took collective action in relation to the dispute in 2003 when the premises was flagged;
  • ade union flag
  • management removed the t
  • trade unions appealed to the court
  • company’s management of obstructing trade union activity.
  • conflict escalated
  • company’s management decided to move the headquarters of the trade unions to space outside the premises
  • The unions once again appealed to the court to reverse this decision, but the court again dismissed the appeal
  • staged a protest
  • culminating point in the conflict occurred in June 2006
  • according to the unions
  • at CZ Cussons once again disregarded the preliminary social fund expenditures schedule.
  • remove the flags and transport them outside the company’s premises
  • A scuffle between the union activist and the security staff ensued, resulting in minor injuries to the former, according to trade union sources.
  • NSZZ Solidarnosc shop steward was dismissed from the company on disciplinary grounds.
  • not able to appeal against the decision within a statutory time frame.
  • management also tried to prevent the next union meeting from taking place and attempted to keep the dismissed union member off the premises
  • The trade unions claimed that PZ Cussons had clearly ignored Polish union law
  • The unions warn that they will fight the case until the company’s management reinstates the dismissed trade union member.
  • caused a dangerous situation and broke work regulations in his protest against the removal of the trade union flags from the premises.
  • car without permission
  • As this represented a gross abuse of an employee’s duties, the management agreed to the shop steward’s disciplinary dismissal. The case has since been sent to the labour court.
  • Simon Brooks on 30 Nov 11
     
    An example of a trade union dispute in a household cleaning and detergent manufacturer. Explains how the dispute came about as well as how it was resolved.
Sian Whitlock

BBC NEWS | England | Lancashire | Sports car firm starts relocation - 1 views

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  • Sian Whitlock on 03 Jan 11
     
    TVR factory relocation proposal
Duncan Innes

BBC News - Viewpoint: How Japan's car industry almost shut down - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-13421065

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  • Duncan Innes on 18 May 11
     
    Great BBC article explaining the impact of an over reliance on Just in Time production methods
car tracking

Vehicle Tracking Device Helped Save My Mother - 1 views

I am a very cautious person. I insisted with my mother who is already in her 60's to put a Geotab Go5 Compact tracking device in her car so that in case she gets lost along the way, I can locate wh...

Vehicle tracking

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