Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prohibits secondary boycotts, but the California bill, which took effect August 28, 1975, allows secondary boycotts at farms where a union has won an election but has not been able to reach a contract agreement with the employer. The state law also created a state board to supervise secret-ballot elections, allows currently employed workers to petition for a decertification election that could bust a union and nullify existing contracts, and gives striking workers the right to vote in union certification elections...
...organized a drive last April to get a proposition on the ballot that would permanently fund the board. But the proposition was defeated earlier this month, by a vote of 61 to 29 per cent. Again, Gallo did not take a side, although other growers reportedly admitted to spending at least $1.6 million to defeat the proposition. The UFW spent about...
...Many ballot boycotters hoped that their actions would eventually lead to reforms. Lincoln, Neb., Stockbroker Don Geis, 41, coordinated Senator Frank Church's primary campaign in Nebraska, and was disgusted with the surviving candidate. He asked: "In a nation of over 200 million is this the best we can come up with?" Geis suggested that voting booths be outfitted with a category labeled NONE OF THE ABOVE. Said he: "If none of the above wins it, we should then start over until we come up with decent candidates...
Miss Lillian swept up to the polling place, took one look at the line of voters shivering in the brisk wind and declared, "I wouldn't stand in this line for nothin'!" An hour later she tried again, and upon receiving the voluminous ballot said airily, "I don't know what you'd do with all this except paper a barn." Behind the blue curtains she obviously relegated the long list of constitutional changes to the barn: she was closeted only long enough to flip the one lever she cared about...
While companies are barred from contributing to individual candidates' campaigns--as are labor unions--and the amount an individual can contribute to any one candidate or committee is limited to $1000, there is no legal limit on the amount a corporation can contribute to help defeat a ballot question that affects its business...