Word: antiunion
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...opinions." His tough stance on foreign trade appeals to a nativist streak that is an undercurrent of populism. Bruce Babbitt's best applause comes when he denounces corporate executives who get large bonuses while cutting workers' benefits. He has called IBP meat-packers, one of Iowa's most antiunion companies, a "corporate outlaw." All the other Democrats soon followed suit. Gary Hart's new slogan -- "Let the people decide" -- also strikes an anti- Establishment chord...
Babbitt framed the issue by intervening in a local dispute over whether IBP, a militantly antiunion meat packer with a woeful safety record, should build a plant in Manchester, Iowa. The controversy might seem arcane to outsiders, but IBP symbolizes antiunion trends that arouse deep feelings among Iowa workers. Babbitt won statewide headlines by labeling IBP a "corporate outlaw" and a "monument to everything shabby . . . in the American economy." It was not empty rhetoric, since Babbitt artfully used IBP as a bridge to dramatize his own detailed proposals for employee participation and "workplace democracy." Gephardt has long wooed Iowa union...
Anne H. Taylor, special assistant to the vice president for administration and head of the University's antiunion efforts, said UAW's departure will have little impact on the University...
...University's chief labor administrator saidHarvard's antiunion stance will not affectteaching. Harvard "won't insist" that professorswho support labor become anti-union, said RobertH. Scott, vice president of administration...
...fervor and in analyzing their times, Davita's Harp too often limits itself to predictable externalities. Potok relies heavily on the imagination of other artists: the explanation for Davita's father's alienation from his timber- tycoon forebears, for example, is that he witnessed a real-life scene of antiunion violence that is vividly evoked in John Dos Passos' 1919, and Davita comes to understand him by reading the book. He also introduces a surrogate uncle to Davita, a refugee writer whose fables are full of images that heavy- handedly foreshadow Picasso's Guernica. Then Davita's father dies...