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White collars start to join the blue ones in union ranks 11 my life I've been antiunion. I always felt professionals could look after themselves. But with today's economic and social problems, organizing is the best way to protect what we have." So says Joe Williford, 43, a senior contract administrator with the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARIA). Williford became a union man this summer after MARIA asked its employees to surrender part of their scheduled cost-of-living raises because a delay in fare increases had led to a budget squeeze. Bus drivers...
Mother Jones has told readers how to organize boycotts (once listing all the trade names of antiunion J.P. Stevens products) and how to spur recalls of cars. Explains Dowie: "We want to get readers angry and make them do something. We're pamphleteers." Staff members talk easily of "fascist oligarchies" and "revolutionary weapons," but their bark is more ideological than their bite. "I don't want to live in a society without good restaurants or a choice of health care," says Dowie...
...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...