Word: actwu
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...hostile to unionism than other Dixie employers. That was a monumental miscalculation: Stevens fought back so hard as to lead the National Labor Relations Board to accuse it last year of "unfair labor practices of unprecedented flagrancy and magnitude." To this day the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) does not have a contract at even one of Stevens' 85 plants, most of them in the Southeast. The intensity of the company's resistance, however, has only confirmed unionists in their view that Stevens is the key to organizing all the South. Now they are launching...
First Taste. Last week, as a record 550 shareholders jammed into the cafeteria and three other rooms of the Stevens Tower in mid-Manhattan for the annual meeting, management got its first taste of the new offensive. In the street below, 3,000 ACTWU sympathizers-butchers, seamen, teachers, Princeton students-waved picket signs and chanted union slogans. At the meeting, several former Stevens workers accused the company of firing them for union activity. Many Roman Catholic nuns and priests and Methodist ministers, members of five religious organizations that had bought shares of Stevens stock in order to have a voice...