Word: antiunion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed most unlikely that American farmers, traditionally an independent and antiunion lot, would be eager to do that. Most leaders of established farm organizations oppose the call for a strike, which first came from a group of Colorado ranchers and then was spread through the farm states...
...translation seemed to be that the NLRB is simply fed up with Stevens and its antiunion attitudes that seem to anachronistically exemplify the South in its earlier, immature stage of industrial growth. Over the years, the board has found Stevens guilty of unfair labor practices 15 times and hit Stevens with $1.3 million in fines. Last summer a federal court of appeals took the unusual step of warning Stevens that any future violations would bring fat fines of $100,000 each, plus $5,000 for every day the violations continued. That was not really much of a threat; such fines...
Organized labor views J.P. Stevens & Co., the nation's second biggest textile company, as the key to organizing the booming Sunbelt-precisely because it is, in the eyes of the AFL-CIO, the nation's "No. 1 labor-law outlaw." If this most antiunion of all companies can be organized, the theory goes, so can any other firm in the sparsely unionized South or anywhere else in the U.S. Accordingly, unions have called for a nationwide boycott of Stevens' goods, and sought and won several court convictions of the company for unfair labor practices...
...Anglo-Indian managing director George Ward. With six other employees, Mrs. Desai joined the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX), a moderate, nonmilitant, white-collar trade union. In the next few days, more than 100 Grunwick employees joined APEX. Ward, who describes himself as "not antiunion, just nonunion," fired all the workers affiliated with APEX and refused to meet with the union's organizers...
With public concern rising over paycuts and layoffs, some Tories argue that the Prime Minister would be better off taking the matter to the country with an antiunion campaign fashioned on the theme "Who Governs Britain?" But an election waged on the labor issue would be divisive. It would also spotlight the fact that Heath's policy of unfettered economic growth had failed. Warned the London Times: "The class bitterness and political mayhem would leave behind social wreckage that would take years to clear...