Word: antiunion
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...three have been on unpaid leave from their jobs, but they are still accumulating federal pension benefits, with the unions paying the Government's share. The three leaders, refusing to resign, accused the Reagan Administration of seeking political revenge. Said Biller: "It is a very cynical, politically motivated antiunion move." Said Edward J. Rollins, director of the 1984 Reagan campaign: "Absolutely no one in the White House sought the action...
...Medical Area, vowing to high the union for the good of the University community. The liberal ideal that unions are socially useful in situations, upheld just last year in a book by a pair of Harvard professors, evidently is not applicable at this university. J. P. Stevens they're antiunion. This is enlightened Harvard. And what would we students do it push came to shove...
...This is the worst antiunion, antilabor period in my lifetime. We are the only country in the free world where the labor movement is fighting for its life...
Harvard wages a "sophisticated, antiunion" battle with "secret promises, rumors, and whisper campaigns," union organizer Kristine Rondeau told the assembled workers...
DIED. Robert Ten Broeck Stevens, 83, president of the huge, antiunion J.P Stevens textile company for much of the past half-century; in Edison, N.J. Under Stevens, the 170-year-old company became the U.S.'s second largest textile firm (1982 revenues: $2 billion), but lost its fight to bar unions in 1980, when it was cited for violating fair labor practices. Stevens' greatest personal fame came in 1954, when as Secretary of the Army he gamely defended himself for 13 days against the attacks of Joseph McCarthy in televised hearings that eventually led to the demagogic Senator...