Hints and tips:
...As one sceptic conceded, laying off workers “is very sensitive, especially going into elections”....
...Every dollar spent in manufacturing adds $1.89 to local communities, according to the National Association for Manufacturers....
...At Sizewell B, everything is covered up, clad in the same corrugated metal sheet that has become the default language of anonymous roadside industry....
...The fund, the Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 33 Cleveland District Pension Plan, said it had entered into CDS deals with Citigroup....
...(Financial Times) US pension fund sues big banks over CDS ‘dominance’: The class action antitrust suit filed by the Sheet Metal Workers Local No. 33 Cleveland District Pension Plan pension fund accuses...
...Outside the sheet-metal gates, security guards with shotguns eye passers-by and workers reporting for duty....
...“Decline in manufacturing is casting a cloud over the whole city,” says Clair Smith, whose husband owns a small sheet-metal manufacturing company....
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