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...The AFL-CIO, a US federation of unions, traces these in Executive Paywatch, its annual report....
...The stock trades at 66 times forward earnings — double that of local peers Omron and Fanuc. It is looking to expand overseas but ABB, Rockwell and Honeywell are formidable rivals....
...Renishaw has put itself up for sale after the £4bn-valued engineer’s founders said they intend to sell their majority stake....
...We’re expecting a sizeable US or European brand acquisition rather than a local ‘me-too’ business, of which there is no shortage....
...Block caving has high upfront costs but much lower operating expenses than other underground mining methods....
...When the reflective Indian-born engineer took over from his ebullient and hard-charging predecessor Steve Ballmer in 2014, Microsoft was under pressure....
...The left remains implacably opposed to any trade agreement — the AFL-CIO, America’s largest union, has promised to stop funding any Democrat who votes for the Pacific deal....
...represents the call center; and Local 30, which represents building engineers....
...The AFL-CIO labour union, urged Tribune in May not to sell to the Koch brothers, saying they had promoted “an ideological agenda” and could affect the newspapers’ reputation for independent journalism....
...The US is considering whether to withdraw trade privileges – under the generalised system of preferences (GSP) – following a campaign by the AFL-CIO, the US trade union federation....
...The 66-year-old Sir James still looms large at the company he founded in 1993. He stepped down as chairman briefly in 2010 but has since returned to the post....
...On land, five oil refineries with 936,500 b/d of production capacity, including plants owned or co-owned by Valero Energy, Phillips 66 and ExxonMobil, were shut down and six more were operating at reduced...
...The fact is, the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO don’t agree on a whole lot. Tom Donohue and Richard Trumka aren’t exactly Facebook friends....
...But if IT is to become green, businesses will need to change the way they manage their IT departments, and their CIOs. “CIOs are embracing the green agenda,” Mr Dawson says....
...Lifecycle management haunts the CIO....
...Currently 35 per cent of engineers in Areva are female but this level of representation does not extend to executive ranks....
...operating....
...Companies could save between 20 and 50 per cent of their total operating costs, it says....
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