Word: backpayment
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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...discharge of workers who sympathize with the TWUA is Stevens most frequent tactic. Stevens has been found guilty of illegally discharging 289 workers in 15 cases, and was forced to rehire tham with backpay totalling $1.3 million. However, legal penalties come only after two to four years of litigation, and thus long after an organizing drive hay been strangled. As a result, Stevens can effectively ignore labor laws...
...company has decided that all the illegal actions, fines, backpay settlements, lawyers fees and court costs are still easier and cheaper than dealing with the union. And so far, the strategy has worked...
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