Word: cafeteria
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Even so, since old prejudices die hard, progress is often slow and uneven. Despite its commendable record in other fields, Ford has not yet overcome apartheid in the canteen at its plant in Neave, near Port Elizabeth. Though all workers are served at the same cafeteria, the whites eat on one side of a partition and nonwhites on the other side. Few other companies follow Ford's example and encourage nonwhites to participate in negotiations about wages and work rules...
...Cafeteria workers in Fall River yesterday refused to cross the teachers' picket lines, and school officials told students to bring lunches to school as the officials tried to keep schools open at least through this week...
...NLRB and the union, in their briefs to the court, however, remain skeptical of this argument. They point out that according to a survey of cafeteria use, less than 2 per cent of users of the cafeteria were the patients at Beth Israel, while at least 77 per cent of the users were employees. They also argued in their briefs that the cafeteria was physically removed by a corridor from the main lobby of the hospital, and that the hospital administration often used the cafeteria to distribute literature of its own, including the employee newsletter, which represented the management point...
...main reasoning behind the Justices' opinion seems to be the fact that comparatively few patients visit the Beth Israel cafeteria, and that the locker room area provides inadequate space for communication between employees about the union organization efforts. The opinion also stated the hospital "was unable to show any evidence" that distribution or solicitation had caused actual harm...
...lawyer for the hospital, says, "I don't think there's any question that this is not a broad decision, and does not set any precedents." Chandler adds he disagrees with the Court's finding of facts, because "hospital calculations show that at least 60,000 patients visit the cafeteria a year, and we don't find that an insubstantial number...