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Employers, of course, have their own arsenal of weapons for turning back organizing attempts. Companies can often keep unions at bay simply by firing employees who seem sympathetic to an organizer's pitch. Forklift driver Jerome Childs filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board last month after Preferred Consolidated, a Chicago-area warehouse operator, laid him off. The firm says the dismissal was for gashing the wrapping on a palette of Styrofoam boxes that Childs had been told to unload quickly. Childs says it was for favoring representation by Unite, a recently formed combination of clothing-workers' unions...
Terrence Moore, a forklift operator from Chicago's West Side, will not be going. "I want to work with everyone," he says. "I respect the Nation of Islam, but they just want to divide. There are a lot of black men without access to the good things in life, watching their kids do without, and facing a lot of anger. It's a cycle of rage, and talking about the years of captivity [as he feels the Nation does] just makes more fire for the rage. It's like pumping poison into people...
...William John Neeson's early life. He grew up in the mill town of Ballymena, in Northern Ireland. A strapping lad, he was a youthful boxing champion. "I thought I wanted to be professional. But I realized I didn't have the killer instinct." Soon he was driving a forklift at the Guinness brewery in Belfast by day, and at night filling the Lyric Theatre stage with roles like that of Lennie in Of Mice and Men. In 1986 he moved to Los Angeles, where he was felled by diverticulitis, an intestinal disorder. That experience scarred...
...Supreme Court ruled unanimously yesterdayin Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. that women nolonger need to show that harassment has causedthem "severe psychological injury" to prove sexualharassment...
SEXUAL HARASSMENT (Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc.) The Question: Must a complainant prove that vulgar and sexually suggestive conduct by a boss is "psychologically damaging" or merely "offensive to a reasonable person" ? Prediction: The court, and Ginsburg, will opt for the latter, more liberal, standard. Watch: Clarence Thomas' vote...