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...U.A.W. is also losing some of its traditional members. Last fall Nissan autoworkers in Tennessee voted down union representation nearly 2 to 1. "It's a bit ironic that the mighty U.A.W. failed to gain votes from autoworkers," says David Denholm, president of the Public Service Research Foundation, an antiunion group, "and now it's making a big deal about representing a couple hundred dorm monitors...
...restrictions that prevented the Federal Government from doing business with companies that have a record of violating labor laws. And on a Saturday in February--only three days after Labor Secretary Elaine Chao held a conciliatory meeting with the AFL-CIO executive council in Los Angeles--Bush issued four antiunion Executive Orders: two weakened labor's hand with federal contractors; another aimed to cut into its political power by reducing the amount it collects for political activities. "Put it together, and it's probably as antiunion a package as we've seen from anybody in the past 50 years," charges...
Ashcroft grew up in rural Springfield, Mo., a green and rolling part of the state that has voted Republican since the Civil War. Back when Missouri sent 10 Democrats to Congress, Springfield was the lone Republican holdout. It was free-labor, antiunion territory, with antislave, Bible-belt, mountain people. Young John was the middle son of a renowned Pentecostal educator and minister. His was a strict and loving household, childhood friends say, where smoking, drinking and dancing were forbidden, and Sundays were for prayer and study, not work or play. When John was a teenager, he and his brother Wesley...
...threat of an INS bust has become a weapon in the arsenal of antiunion employers. When undocumented Latina chambermaids at the Holiday Inn Express in Minneapolis, Minn., voted to join the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union last year, management called in the INS, and they were hauled off to jail. But the union posted their bonds, the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission launched an investigation, and the hotel agreed to pay a $72,000 settlement. The INS, which had at first threatened to deport the illegal maids, agreed to let seven of the eight remain in the U.S. "Companies across...
...faced this sort of talent-critical, labor-critical problem...probably since wartime," says Don Hasbargen, a principal at Hewitt Associates, a consulting firm. When as many as 190,000 computer jobs go unfilled, for instance, companies can't afford to be seen as racist, sexist--or even antiunion...