The car-price subsidy was abandoned but the cash-for-workers one was not.The plant could make 200,000 cars a year but its production will be lower.
Instead, Mr. King concentrated on getting sizable cash bonuses for workers now and a bigger share of corporate profits for them in the future.
In south-western Osun state, the situation is so bad that trade unions sought food and cash donations for workers before the Ramadan month of fasting.
The decision to establish a deadline for the cash program for workers and businesses and the turmoil it has produced represent another example of how delicate it is to begin the process of drawing limits around Sept. 11 charity.
The national minimum cash wage for workers who also receive tips — in the restaurant world, that group typically includes servers, bartenders and bussers — is much lower, $2.13 an hour, versus $7.25, and it hasn't changed in two decades.
But the contracts would last five years instead of six, cash bonus payouts for workers would be tied to those for executives and the unions could change one item in the contracts as long as the change did not alter the value of the concessions.
But the Federation of Small Businesses says that many firms it represents would like to pay staff more but are having to use much of their surplus cash paying National Insurance for workers, VAT to the government and business rates to councils.
In one village there had been wholesale intimidation of workers going for the "cash for work" scheme whereby workers would be paid $5 for a hard day's manual work.
But when the Poles asked the World Bank for cash to support workers dislocated at the start of 1990, the Bank reacted in slow motion, suggesting that a fraction of the sum requested might be available by next summer.The third kind of support is cancellation of most of the debt owed to western governments and banks.
Without a doubt entrepreneurship is the quickest path to cash for the social worker.
