Word: actwu
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...protest got nowhere: a resolution calling on Stevens to explain its labor policies drew only 6% of the shareholder votes. But the demonstration was only part of the union attack. In mid-1976 ACTWU announced a nationwide boycott of Stevens products and in the past few months it has intensified the effort. With the support of church, student and civil rights groups, it hopes to call on community leaders and get them to urge retailers to take Stevens goods off the shelves. This is the same tactic, and the same coalition, that broke the impassioned resistance to unionism of Farah...
...that much of Stevens' output is unfinished cloth sold to other manufacturers, and the company's own consumer products sell under a bewildering variety of private labels and brand names, including Utica blankets and Gulistan carpets. Some, like Yves Saint Laurent sheets, bear designer names. Nonetheless, ACTWU is printing up thousands of wallet-sized cards listing labels, and plans to take ads in local papers to persuade housewives to boycott Stevens...
...ACTWU is also trying to get people in union offices all over New York to tie up the Stevens switchboard with telephone calls. Says Campaign Director Ray Rogers: "We want to get so many phone calls going into the company that they can't make phone calls out." The union has allotted $1.5 million a year for the next ten years for the Stevens campaign, and has a pledge of full support from...
...after a court ruling that management had to bargain in good faith with the union; Stevens says the mill was shut because demand for its product "declined drastically." In 1974 the union won an election at seven Stevens plants in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., but 2½ years later ACTWU officials still have not been able to get the company to sign a contract. Stevens accuses the union of making "impossible" demands. ACTWU officers reply that Stevens adamantly refuses to accept arbitration of grievances or a checkoff system for dues collections, and that without those provisions the union cannot function...
...annual meeting. Chairman Finley admitted that Stevens "has made mistakes of judgment." But officials show no signs of softening: the leaflet to stockholders asserts that union boycotters are "proving that they will readily sacrifice the interests of the employees ... to increase their own power." On their side, ACTWU officials vow a battle to the death. After 14 years the struggle is more bitter than ever...