Word: apex
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...processor in protest against the low wages ($42.50 a week), poor working conditions and compulsory overtime imposed on the predominantly Asian work force by Grunwick's Anglo-Indian managing director George Ward. With six other employees, Mrs. Desai joined the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX), a moderate, nonmilitant, white-collar trade union. In the next few days, more than 100 Grunwick employees joined APEX. Ward, who describes himself as "not antiunion, just nonunion," fired all the workers affiliated with APEX and refused to meet with the union's organizers...
...retaliation, APEX organized a picket outside the plant. For months Mrs. Desai and a handful of other dismissed employees patrolled in saris outside the gates of Grunwick as policemen eyed them warily. Unable to meet with Ward, APEX enlisted the aid of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS), an agency set up by the government's 1975 Employment Protection...
...right-wing organization made up mostly of businessmen, refused to cooperate with ACAS. He rejected its proposal to poll his employees on whether or not they wanted union representation. When ACAS polled the striking workers anyway, they opted for the union. ACAS then recommended that the company recognize APEX. But Ward went to court to contend that the ballot had been improperly conducted...
...being centered to death." And in particular, he openly advises Meany, who is 82, to step down as AFL-CIO president when the federation convenes in Los Angeles in December. Says Winpisinger: "I have immense respect for George Meany, but there comes a time when every man passes the apex of his career, and it's all downhill after that. When the polls rate labor just behind Richard Nixon and just ahead of used-car salesmen, you know something needs to be changed...
...said in the so-called Palestinian charter that it was the destruction of the Jewish state. Israel must disappear. He wants to destroy a nation. Our aim is to save a people. When I am called a terrorist and Arafat is called a guerrilla, I think it is the apex of injustice...