Stephen Franklin

Here's the deal. From the plant manager down, the union and management decide almost everything as partners. Workers operate mostly in teams and elect leaders. Seniority is not what bumps...

Donald Fites` basic chemistry was not a secret in 1992. He is a man in a hurry. A man who knows what he wants. When he is going against the...

When a doctor told Charles L. Wessel last April that brain cancer might take his life within a year, he made up his mind to keep working. For a while,...

Five years ago, when Carol Basler filed a sexual-harassment complaint against her employer, Commonwealth Edison, what she got was a lot of grief. In fact, Basler, 29, a mechanic and...

The refrain is the same in Chicago as in Philadelphia. City officials want to trim health-care costs, change work rules and contract some jobs to private firms. As in Philadelphia,...

The flood of migrant workers from Mexico dumps many in ramshackle camps like this one, called Rancho Pena Asquitas, where about 600 people live in crude huts close to open...

President Bush, eager to shake the sick economy`s political hex, Monday proposed new job-training programs for youths and dislocated workers that would boost the government`s efforts by at least $2...

Komatsu Dresser Co., a victim of stiff competition and the lingering construction slump, said Thursday it will close a 200-worker plant in Libertyville. The plant, which was remodeled three years...

The industrial core of the Midwest is facing a hesitant recovery, plagued by the exodus of manufacturing jobs in the 1980s and a prolonged slump in consumer confidence, according to...

Big Sur is about 3 1/2 hours by car from San Francisco, half an hour from Monterey and 7 hours from Los Angeles. No planes. No boats. No way but...