Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turned out, the priest issue apparently did not hurt Father Drinan. He won the working class city of Waltham, for example, by a 3-2 margin. He campaigned very hard among blue collar workers and combined their support with a 3-1 margin in suburban Newton...
COMPARED with his blue-collar counterparts in the West, the Japanese worker is underpaid and overworked. Still he seems surprisingly contented with his lot. Rarely does the Japanese factory hand walk out on a long and costly strike. His energetic work habits are reflected in his country's productivity, which has been rising at an annual rate of 11.8%, helping to make Japan the world's fastest-growing industrial power. More and more Western businessmen are beginning to envy the tranquil relationship between Japanese labor and management...
Herschel Bernardi is another talent entombed in a seemingly moribund CBS property. Arnie, as his series is titled, has a possibly workable premise: a lifelong blue-collar worker is suddenly hoisted from the loading dock to an executive desk. But what laughs there were in the first episode belonged to the firm's fatuous, polo-playing president (Roger Bowen), whose main professional interest seems to be avoiding handclasps lest he endanger his mallet hand. Arnie is around obviously to provide hardhat wisdom and wit, but the premiere script suggests that Eric Hoffer...
...decade, the median age of men in the auto plants has declined from 41 to 37; more than one-third of the strikers are under 25. The youngsters insist on big gains-now. A common refrain among union leaders is voiced by Leonard Paula, who represents 4,700 white-collar workers in U.A.W. Local 112 at Chrysler: "I try to tell the young guys that they have to wait for some things, but they come up with their beards and mop heads and say, 'Hey, mother, you're ancient.' They do not even listen...
...makes its appeal with the tactics of commercial advertising-with spots of less than 60 seconds on shows calculated to have the right viewers for the pitch. In New Jersey, where Republican Nelson Gross is running for the Senate, his managers know that he has a problem with blue-collar votes. They are considering placing his ads on broadcasts of Yankee games...