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...elections held in the company's plants. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that the workers voted under coersion and the threat of illegal firing. When Stevens did not respond to the charges, the ACTWU organizers tried a new tack and joined with the AFL-CIO in launching the much-publicized boycott of J.P. Stevens products in 1976. But like the NLRB warnings, the boycott seems to have left J.P. Stevens unmoved. The corporation, despite all efforts, continues to ignore allegations of unfair practices and court rulings finding it guilty of price fixing, wiretapping, tax fraud, violation of health...
UnionsMembers Contract expires Harvard University Employees Representative Association (HUERA) custodians 488 Nov.30 1979 guards 44 Maintenance Trades Council of New England, AFL-CIO electricians carpenters painters 353 Dec. 7, 1979 Hotel Restaurant and Institutional Employees Union Local 26, AFL-CIO 534 June 1980 Harvard University Police Association 47 Dec. 31, 1979 Boston Typographical Union Local 13 AFL-CIO 14 Spring 1980 Graphic Arts Intermational Union Locals 300 16 b AFL-CIO bookbinders lithographers...
Thanks to the brass of its chairman, Dolan, N.C.P.A.C. lately has drawn more fire from its foes than other conservative ;roups. The notoriety, including an attack against it in last month's AFL-CIO politcal newsletter, helps in the competition br conservative dollars. N.C.P.A.C. can use the money. Debts forced Dolan to suspend his own $2,000-a-month salary this ;ummer, and he is trying to raise $700,000 for the opening shots of his "Target '80" effort to defeat five prominent Democratic Senators: Frank Church of Idaho, Alan Cranston of California, George McGovern of South Dakota...
WILLIAM WINPISINGER, Machinists Union president: I think the country is crazy for a leader. That's the problem with the little fink we've got for a President now. It is still possible to call [AFL-CIO boss] George Meany a leader, but I happen to think he epitomizes negative leadership, characterized by inaction, immobility and stultified thinking. To me, Ted Kennedy has the skills to be a leader. He's charming; his staff has brains. Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich took on the utility company and the interlocking directorates. He told them baloney...
...movement more attractive for younger workers by encouraging greater initiative at local levels. Says Kroll: "We have to get away from the image of the baseball bat, T shirt and tattoo." He says he has "the greatest respect" for George Meany, 84, the autocratic AFL-CIO president, but that "maybe the leadership is not in touch with younger people...