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Fear adds fuel to GM strike in Flint Michigan
In Flint with 9,200 strikers protesting at two parts plants since early last month, fear grows over GM’s plans to cut 50,000 hourly jobs and move work overseas. Union and company say the dispute centers on hours, health, safety, and long term job guarantees while warrants of investment linger amid heavy losses and Delphi tensions.
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Private stock offering eyed for US Enrichment Corp
U S Enrichment stock offering may begin Thursday as the government moves to privatize the firm that took over DOE plants in Piketon Ohio and Paducah Kentucky in 1993. The company supplied weapons grade uranium and now furnishes about 75 percent of the world’s nuclear reactor fuel while supporting nearly 5 000 high paying jobs in the region.
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Opening Stocks Mixed as Markets Open Amid Active Trading
New York stocks show early activity with many NYSE listed names moving. Large firms such as Amex, Analog Devices, AutoZone, Boeing and PepsiCo appear among active tickers as investors track gaps, highs and lows in a volatile opening session.
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Americans suffer fewer workplace assaults than many nations
A 1996 international survey of 130000 workers in 83 countries found American men reporting 1 percent assaulted at work versus 3.6 percent in the Netherlands and 6.1 percent in Argentina, while American women reported 4.2 percent assaulted compared with lower rates in many developed nations.
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Pepsi buys Tropicana from Seagram in $3.3 billion deal
Seagram Co sells its Tropicana juice business to PepsiCo for 3.3 billion dollars ending a public offering plan. Tropicana leads chilled orange juice and had 2 billion dollars in sales last year while Coca Cola owns Minute Maid and Seagram aims to fund its PolyGram purchase.
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