Word: boycotts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Willie Farah swore with 19th century capitalistic fervor that he would never allow a union in his Farah Manufacturing Co. plants and kept that vow through not only a 93-week strike but a nationwide boycott against his products: men's slacks. Yet last week he sat down to breakfast with officials of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in New York City and capitulated totally. He agreed to recognize the union as sole bargaining agent for all employees of the El Paso-based firm, rehire all strikers, and begin immediate negotiations for a wage-and-benefit contract. Said...
What changed his mind? The boycott, organized by the A.C.W.A. and vigorously supported by high-powered politicians and even the Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso, turned Farah's 1971 profit of $6 million into losses of $8.3 million in 1972. Farah stock, soaring at $56 the day the strike was called, closed at $8 the Friday before the settlement. Quite as important, National Labor Relations Board and court decisions during the long battle consistently favored the strikers. When the NLRB ruled early last month that Farah must let union organizers enter his plants (TIME, Feb. 11), he apparently...
...oldest labor unions, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Company president Willie Farah once said that he would rather "go bankrupt than unionize." But faced with a National Labor Relations Board judge's condemnation, a growing group of angry stockholders and a determined union willing to continue the boycott indefinitely, Farah had few alternatives to choose from...
...major clothing manufacturers based in the Southwest should follow Farah's lead and give all their laborers-- Chicano, Indian, black and white--the right to unionize freely. This especially applies to those firms that were lucky enough to have escaped the Amalgamated boycott and have prospered, perhaps unfairly, at Farah's expense. Unionization will prevent large companies from moving from one region of the country to another in order to exploit cheap labor in runaway shops...
Here in Cambridge and Boston, conscientious consumers should remember to patronize the stores (The Coop, J. August, Almy's) that voluntarily joined the boycott. They should try to avoid those large downtown and suburban department stores (Filene's, Jordan Marsh, Milton's) that callously refused to support the Chicano laborers and had Amalgamated picketers arrested and harrassed when they publicized the struggle to weekend shoppers...