BRIEFCASE CONTRACT GETS OK FROM BOEING UNION.Byline: - Staff and Wire Reports LONG BEACH - Union members approved a three-year contract covering workers at a California Boeing plant, ignoring their leadership's recommendation to reject the deal that includes increases in health insurance costs. Union members voted 710-630 Sunday to accept the contract, which covers nearly 3,000 workers who build passenger jets and C-17 military cargo planes at Boeing's Long Beach factory. The pact provides a 3 percent wage increase in the first and third years, as well as a lump-sum payment of $2,000 in the second year. Most employees will pay 10 percent more of their medical insurance premiums beginning next year. Comcast thinking ahead on mergers NEW ORLEANS New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded - Even though its proposed merger with Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Corp. is dead, the head of Comcast Corp. said Monday that the cable giant has not given up on the idea of a deal with an entertainment provider. ``We're moving on,'' Comcast chief executive Brian L. Roberts Brian L. Roberts is Chairman and CEO of Comcast Corporation, an American company providing cable, entertainment and communications products and services. He is the son of Comcast co-founder Ralph J. Roberts. said during a discussion with other cable executives at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association show. ``It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to move and get focused Get Focused is a Christian youth festival started in 2001 in Tønsberg, Norway. The festival had 1500 visitors in 2005, and the British Christian-rock band Delirious? performed. Get Focused is a cooperation of the local youth groups in the Tønsberg area in Vestfold, Norway. back on cable.'' But Roberts said the company was not giving up the strategy of combining Comcast's program delivery service with a content provider. He offered no specifics on possible merger or distribution agreements. Safeway jiggles board of directors SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden - Hoping to quell a shareholder rebellion, supermarket giant Safeway Inc. shook up its board of directors Monday, but continued to stand behind embattled CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Steve Burd - the main target of irate investors. The Pleasanton-based company said it will jettison jettison (jĕt`əsən, –zən) [O.Fr.,=throwing], in maritime law, casting all or part of a ship's cargo overboard to lighten the vessel or to meet some danger, such as fire. three directors, including two longtime board members, and appoint replacements with no previous Safeway ties to foster more independence from management. Global Crossing faces delisting FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - Global Crossing Ltd., the fiber-optic network that listed on the Nasdaq less than four months ago, said Monday it may be delisted because of an accounting review. Global Crossing last week announced that it would restate last year's results and review its 2002 results. Nasdaq said the delisting will take place unless the company requests a hearing from the qualifications panel. Global Crossing said it intends to do this shortly. The company emerged from two years of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection less than six months ago. |
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