Word: employment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders of groups against Harvard's investment policy contend that even if American companies were to initiate labor reforms, the firms would have no practical effect on the apartheid system because they employ only four-tenths of 1 per cent of the black work force in South Africa. American companies in which Harvard holds stock serve only to bolster the apartheid system by supplying the South African white-minority government with the funds it needs to continue building a strong military and police force, the anti-apartheid group...
...March 1977, the Publishers Association, representing the three dailies, informed the pressmen that when the old contract expired on March 30, 1978, it intended to demand major changes in work rules. The papers hope to reduce through attrition the swollen crews and institute "room manning," a system that would employ only enough workers to run the presses efficiently. The goal is to bring the ratio of men to machines in the pressroom down to that of many newspapers across the country. The union argues that innovations at the papers have created a need for more-not fewer-pressmen, and that...
...this light, it is disturbing that Lawrence Stevens '65, a University spokesman, is apparently reverting to examination of United States firms employment practices in South Africa to decide if Harvard should call for their withdrawal from South Africa. Such a criterion totally neglects the corporations' role in supplying advanced technology, military equipment, and finance to the white-minority regime. As all United States corporations together employ 70,000 blacks in South Africa, to see how any improvement in their workers conditions will break down apartheid. At the same time, U.S. investors provide such crucial inputs as oil (40 per cent...
...textile company has three plants in Easthampton which employ 300 workers and produce rubber and plastic products. Most of the company's business operations are concentrated in southern states...
There is probably not a single major corporation that does not now employ Washington lobbyists. Ford Motor Co., which kept three representatives in the capital in the early 1960s, today maintains a full-time staff of 40 people. Among the airlines alone, 77 have their separate lobbying staffs in Washington. More than 500 corporations, including some quite small firms, operate Washington lobbies, if only for the sake of what they consider prestige. (Only 100 corporations were represented ten years ago.) Of the roughly 6,000 national trade and professional associations in the U.S., 27% are now headquartered for lobbying effect...