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...female, male workers hold virtually all the better- paying jobs. But the power of organization is still a new idea to most immigrant women, and it is one that appeals to those who are especially vulnerable: heads of households. To Chinese women, for example, says Muzaffar Chishti of the ILGWU, "a union is the first stepping-stone into a mainstream American institution...
...report for the ILGWU documents such abuses in the nation's nonunion shops as subminimum wages, homework, excessively long hours and unsafe working conditions. There are an estimated 1,200 sweatshops in Los Angeles, and 2,000 to 3,000 of them may exist in New York City. Women in New York's , Chinatown work nine or ten hours a day with only Sundays off, taking home a mere $80 to $120 a week. They complain of headaches and stomach pains, caused by exhaustion and strain. "They are really suffering from depression," says Chia-ling Kuo, a research associate...
Nearly three months ago student representatives and officials from the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) threatened to set up informational picket lines at today's Commencement exercises if members of the University refused to boycott the dispute-plagued firm of Cotrell and Leonard, the non-unionized manufacturers of Harvard's traditional caps and gowns...
Although the Coop made it somewhat difficult for students to request the alternate by setting a deadline--which it later extended after protests by students and ILGWU members--about 80 per cent of those graduating today will sport the alternate caps and gowns...
...employing empty rhetorical tactics to deceive observers, or they are simply ignorant of the law, since none of their rationalizations appears to have any legitimate legal basis. The NLRB says the posting of notices in the shop does not constitute any kind of legal restitution. The rationale behind the ILGWU's rejection of the company's offer to hold a secret-ballot election lies in a Supreme Court ruling that such elections are not usually accurate indicators of employee sentiment during a labor dispute. NLRB policy also prevents elections of any kind from being held in the midst...