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...child labor (which the UFW contract bars); working conditions (e.g., the right to have toilets in the fields); enforcement of contract provisions (which are repeatedly violated under Teamsters contracts, a fact which has led to a number of recent wildcat strikes by workers covered by the Teamsters); the labor contractor system (which the UFW contract abolishes); and, above all, union democracy. The Teamsters' attitude towards democracy was best expressed by Einar Mohn, President of the West Coast Conference of Teamsters, who told the LA Times (4/28/73), "It will be a couple of years before they can start having membership meetings...
Still other communities have other solutions. In New Orleans, for example, most of the terrain is marshy, and sanitary landfill is needed more than fuel. So the city will get landfill from garbage processed by a private contractor. Around Boston, nine communities will pay Wheelabrator-Frye Inc. $13 per ton to burn their garbage, which will produce steam for sale to a neighboring General Electric factory. Nashville, Term., which already burns 25% of its solid wastes to produce steam to heat and cool 23 downtown commercial buildings, now plans to double the input (and output...
Hale Champion, vice president for finances, declined yesterday to specify any such additional expense, because he said "arguments" with the contractor were not complete...
...hope that Mr. Ferrara will see fit to pen another article dealing with the number of deportees to Mexico, especially during slack agricultural months, since the abolition of the bercero programs ten years ago. Additionally, he should address himself to the question of the union hall vs. the labor contractor system of providing farm labor. Half truths and omissions are far worse than complete untruths...
...Cornett, the labor contractor system to which you refer was in declining use among the grape and lettuce workers until Chavez brought it back in the form of the hiring hall which is really the same thing, except in monopolized form. For example, Gallo company has never used labor contractors...