The rise and fall of White Farm Equipment, with its rise in the 1950s and 1960s encompassing a sizable portion of the tractor and farm equipment and its fall coinciding with a farm economy depression in the 1980s.
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UAW-backed contract includes new attacks on Volvo Truck retirees
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Nearly 3,000 workers at Volvo Truck’s New River Valley plant in Dublin, Virginia will be voting this Sunday on a six-year labor agreement backed by the United Auto Workers union. Rank-and-file workers are actively opposing the deal, which is only a slightly modified version of a previous UAW-backed deal workers decisively rejected last month.
There are many elements of the proposed agreement that have enraged workers. Over the last three contracts, the Swedish multinational and the UAW have pointed to supposed economic difficulties to justify demands for concessions, including the introduction of a multitier wage and benefit system that condemns young workers to inferior pay and denies them fully paid pension benefits.
Marquette Williams’ vision includes training locals in moviemaking trades. Author: Mark Naymik (WKYC) Updated: 12:02 AM EDT May 27, 2021
CLEVELAND Hollywood on the North Coast.
Local film industry leaders have been dreaming about it for decades.
They have made progress toward that goal through the creation of a local film commission and tax credits for moviemakers, which have helped land such big productions as the “Avengers,” “Fast and Furious,” as well as numerous lower budget films including “Judas and Black Messiah.”
But holding back the region from becoming a film and television production hub has been the lack of studio space – and a workforce with experience in the moviemaking trades.
Director Marquette Williams, who grew up in Cleveland and moved back to Ohio from California last year, is planning a 150,000-square-foot film and television studio on the city's East Side.