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Duncan Innes

Harley-Davidson unions back deal | Business | The Guardian - 0 views

  • Motorbike manufacturer's workers agree to steep cuts in jobs and wages to avert threat of Harley-Davidson leaving city that has been home for 107 years
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    Harley Davidson workers agree to 7 year wage freeze to keep jobs
Duncan Innes

It's partly women's fault that they're paid less - Telegraph - 0 views

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  • Unfair pay: British women shouldn't settle for a 16.4 per cent gap Is this as good as it gets for working women? Those of us in full-time employment still earn 16.4 per cent less than men, and the gap is no longer narrowing, according to the “How Fair is Britain?”
  • It is the 40th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act.
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  • And women share a guilty secret: it’s partly our fault that we are paid less. In my experience, among a number of areas of obvious male superiority (I don’t have space to catalogue areas of female superiority) is the ability to ask, in a straightforward manner, for more money. Men are much better at negotiating pay for two reasons: they have a healthy lack of embarrassment, and they tend to overestimate themselves
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    Reasons for the pay gap 40 years after the equal pay act
Duncan Innes

World job crisis is a threat to democracy, says IMF head | Business | The Observer - 0 views

  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF's managing director, warned that "we face the risk of a lost generation", adding: "When you lose your job, your health is likely to be worse. When you lose your job, the education of your children is likely to be worse. When you lose your job, social stability is likely to be worse – which threatens democracy and even peace. So we shouldn't fool ourselves. We are not out of the woods yet. And for the man in the street, a recovery without jobs doesn't mean much."
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      USA is losing patience with China
  • Tim Geithner, Obama's treasury secretary, said: "The United States believes that global rebalancing is not progressing as well as needed to avoid threats to the global economic recovery.
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  • "Our initial achievements are at risk of being undermined by the limited extent of progress toward more domestic demand-led growth in countries running external surpluses and by the extent of foreign exchange intervention as countries with undervalued currencies lean against appreciation."
  • "In the G20 framework there are too many people and too many interests to be able to find a currency arrangement," Juncker said. "The ideal forum would be G7 plus China."
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