Word: actwu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event on the Professional Golfers' Association tour, was in progress. They were arrested, but their protest was splashed all over TV and local papers -- to the distress of their employer, K Mart, which spent $2 million to sponsor the event. "Our bargaining leverage improved dramatically," says Bruce Raynor, ACTWU executive vice president...
...most innovative step is for U.S. unions to seek aid from their labor brethren overseas when facing companies with international operations. Balked at organizing a Polyfelt plant in Evergreen, Alabama, the ACTWU appealed for help to Austrian unions -- some of whose leaders sat on the Supervisory Board of Polyfelt's parent company, OMV. The European unionists got the company to order its U.S. managers to tone down antiunion activities, and the ACTWU won a contract at the Alabama plant last month...