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Rogers, 44, whose consulting firm, Corporate Campaign, is hired by unions on a case-by-case basis, is one of the labor movement's most controversial and innovative figures. As architect of the "corporate campaign," a strategy for shifting labor disputes from the picket line to the boardroom, he has been involved in many of the major union fights of the past decade, including the successful battles of farmworkers against Campbell soup and flight attendants against American Airlines. While supporters describe his approach as a welcome addition to strike tactics, critics attack him as a glory hound who seduces local...
...transformation of the strike force into a powerful economic force." The real punch, he points out, will come from boycotts and threats to withdraw union funds from banks; only such actions will turn executives against IP. "I'd much rather see rich businessmen fight it out in the boardroom," Rogers says. "You can't embarrass them. You have to make them deal with real economic or political pressure." The question is whether the pressure will build fast enough to budge IP before the strikers lose hope...
Such initiatives seldom receive the flashy publicity that protests, shanties, and sit-ins do, but activists learned two years ago that boardroom tactics have an effect in combating a boardroom mentality. When SASC activists published a scathing report on Harvard's South Africa Internship Program in January of 1986, the University faced public condemnation. Less than two months later, the program had been cancelled...
Today's black business class contributes generously to antiapartheid organizations, and many militants now accept it as the protagonist in a new form of confrontation with whites that is taking place in the boardroom. "At one time black managers in South Africa were little more than token blacks in white business," says Morakile Shuenyane, a spokesman for the independent Black Management Forum. "Now it is the responsibility of black management to play a role model with the intention of melting white attitudes." Far from serving as quislings for the white establishment, the new black elite is emerging...
...undergraduate days at Columbia in the early 1960s, classmates dubbed Frank Lorenzo "Frankie Smooth Talk." But as chairman of Texas Air in the 1980s, Lorenzo saves his talking for Wall Street and the boardroom, granting few interviews. In a rare 45-minute conversation last week with Richard Woodbury, TIME's Houston bureau chief, the feisty chairman answered his critics. Some excerpts...