Word: garments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...March 31, 1980, Coop General Manager James Argeros announced that the Coop would offer an alternate cap and gown rather than boycott those of Cotrell & Leonard. The International Ladies Garment Workers' Union had brought the issue to Argeros' attention last October in a letter informing him of the horrendous working conditions at Cotrell & Leonard and of a National Labor Relations Board's complaint against this company (for unfair labor practices). Five months later, Argeros finally responded--but not with the boycott requested by the ILGWU and by some Harvard students. He resolved instead that the Coop would provide an alternate...
...garment district, which employs many minorities, was reporting a 26% to 40% absentee rate. Most of the workers are paid an hourly wage or piece rate: no work, no money. MacLevy, owner of a leather-coat manufacturing business in Manhattan, reported that fewer than a third of his workers were able to get to their jobs. Said he: "They live in places too far away for a bicycleplaces like the South Bronx and Brooklyn...
...what a band they have been. In the inner circle is Shapiro, son of Lithuanian immigrants (Father was a pants presser, Mother a sweatshop garment worker), who got a law degree on loans from the University of Minnesota, and says, "I've always wanted to be sure that I didn't take more from the system than I was putting back." There is Shapiro's friend Reg Jones, a British-born intellectual, who has been similarly motivated to repay the society in which he climbed to become chairman of General Electric. And Citicorp's Walter Wriston...
...attorney for Cotrell and Leonard, the traditional supplier of Harvard's graduation gowns, said yesterday the company believes the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) is preventing an election that would allow workers to unionize...
...Albany, N.Y., firm that manufactures the caps and gowns the Coop rents to students for Commencement--have been on strike since last summer. They have charged the company with a series of unfair labor practices, including threats to close should employees choose to be represented by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union and intimidation of an employee thought to have given the union information...