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U.S automakers plan to level their Labor Cost with Asian rivals
Jun 14 2007, Rahul Bhandari

Desperate Detroit-based automakers are moving to lessen the labor cost roughly by $25-an-hour and are trying to cut it down to the level paid by Asian rivals Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co.

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