Word: antiunion
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...early in her tenure as Prime Minister sounded the themes that made her an enduring leader: open markets, vigorous debate and loyal alliances. Among her first fights: a struggle against Britain's out-of-control trade unions, which had destroyed three governments in succession. Thatcher turned the nation's antiunion feeling into a handsome parliamentary majority and a mandate to restrict union privileges by a series of laws that effectively ended Britain's trade-union problem once and for all. "Who governs Britain?" she famously asked as unions struggled for power. By 1980, everyone knew the answer: Thatcher governs...
Blair's historic achievement was to exorcise the voters' fear of Labour. They could put him in power confident in his pledges that taxes will not go up, spending will be kept in strict control, Thatcher's antiunion laws will remain in place, the privatization of Britain's state assets will continue, and socialism is dead, buried and forgotten. This was, in essence, a constitutional vote by the people to keep the two-party system alive, to insist that the other fellow be given a chance. It was a vote for fair play, balance, honesty, high seriousness and better ethical...
...with international operations. Balked at organizing a Polyfelt plant in Evergreen, Alabama, the ACTWU appealed for help to Austrian unions -- some of whose leaders sat on the Supervisory Board of Polyfelt's parent company, OMV. The European unionists got the company to order its U.S. managers to tone down antiunion activities, and the ACTWU won a contract at the Alabama plant last month...
...worker, Harold W. Hirtle, is a union shopsteward for the Graphics CommunicatorsInternational Union local 600 at the Office of theUniversity Publisher. He said yesterday that hestill views his suspension as an antiunion move...
...inevitable -- goal for a dirt-poor Southern state, Clinton's relations with organized labor have at times been testy. Critics charge that Clinton has given away too much through the concessions, continued a tax structure that unfairly favors business over middle-class wage earners and fostered a low-wage, antiunion climate. In 1990 the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, run by Clinton appointees, arranged a $300,000 loan for Morrilton Plastics, a company that made parts for Detroit automakers, enabling it to build up inventory in anticipation of a strike by the United Auto Workers. At the time, the loan outraged...