1.   For workers in small firms employment guarantees are very rare, working hours are longer and safety records poor.

2.   General Motors Corp. has offered the United Automobile Workers union lifetime employment guarantees for many current workers as it negotiates a new contract, a GM spokesman confirmed Sunday.

3.   In exchange for the employment guarantee, the UAW decided to let Ford pay permanently lower wages in any new auto parts businesses that it enters.

4.   On one side, labor unions who once helped Raytheon get its deal now are stepping up a campaign to tie continued tax breaks to employment guarantees.

5.   Other topics include parts operations, employment guarantees, time off, production standards and grievance procedures.

6.   The employment guarantees slightly reduce the incentive for auto makers to rely on outside suppliers.

7.   The First Amendment is not an employment guarantee for self-hating bigots who feel the need to vent during drive time.

8.   The former Salomon investment bankers also had unsuccessfully sought employment guarantees from their former employer, their colleagues said.

9.   The employment guarantees slightly reduce the incentive for auto makers to rely on outside suppliers, since they will have to pay their workers anyway.

10.   However, Schrempp said that such a concession was still not enough to provide more jobs and employment guarantees wanted by the union chief.