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Word: nonunion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basement, it ranges from $16,125 to $26,300, not counting land. The following comparative figures for the same house were compiled by Milwaukee's American Appraisal Co. In most of the high-cost cities, builders use union labor; in nearly all the low-cost cities, they use nonunion labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Where Prices Are Highest and Lowest | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...community leaders. Martin Sullivan, recently arrived from Montreal, went into the East Los Angeles barrios to distill the Mexican-American way of life-and found the Chicanos strikingly similar in mood and plaint to their French-Canadian cousins in Quebec. Sandra Burton observed the importation of "green-card" nonunion workers from Mexico and covered the climax of a 100-mile march between El Centro and Calexico, in which, she reports, the heat hit 120° and blisters "were like merit badges." At the end, when Union Leader Cesar Chavez began to speak, she thought that she had obtained a perfect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Jul. 4, 1969 | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...union does begin to win contracts with an increasing number of growers, a new difficulty could arise: How is the consumer to tell the difference between union and nonunion grapes? Boxes can be labeled easily, but not loose bunches of grapes in a market. The union claims that existing boycott machinery can be turned around to promote the produce of those who have signed; they could be marketed through the chain stores that have refused to handle the produce of struck growers. However, any such confusing procedure is bound to dilute the boycott's effectiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE LITTLE STRIKE THAT GREW TO LA CAUSA | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...Newspaper Guild and the Machinists' Union struck for modest pay raises last December, Hearst had 150 out-of-town strikebreakers on salary, waiting in local motels. His concern was not salaries but union resistance to automation. He had powerful local support from the beginning. Otis Chandler's nonunion and increasingly automated Los Angeles Times, a bit beset by federal antitrust action, feels more comfortable with a rival around. For a time, it helped Hearst print his strike-bound paper. Mayor Sam Yorty, a Democrat of sorts, put city hall on Hearst's side. "I think the unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The Defeat of the Strikers | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...main source of friction was a rivalry over who should represent the city's teachers in contract negotiations: the local affiliate of the National Education Association or the growing Youngstown Federation of Teachers, an A.F.L.-C.I.O. unit. The school board consistently favored the N.E.A. group, which is nonunion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Penny-Pinching in Youngstown | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

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