Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that unions generally guarantee to their members. These campaigns persuaded many of the employees that joining a union would present no tangible benefits, and some possible disadvantages, for some employees interviewed at the time did not want to associate themselves with what they viewed as the stigma of blue-collar workers...
Strong stuff from a federal judge, and some journalistic defenders immediately got nervous. "Farber ought to throw in his hand ... [There is] a ring around the collar on his white robes of virtue. It won't wash," wrote Conservative Columnist James J. Kilpatrick. "The dollar sign has risen to taint [Farber's] martyrdom," wrote Charles B. Seib, ombudsman of the Washington Post-the paper whose Watergate reporters, Woodward and Bernstein, have made more money from investigative reporting converted into books than any other journalists in history. FARBER CASE DULLS THE EDGE OF THE PRESS'S SILVER SWORD...
Wurf's foghorn voice offers even more hope. In the 14 years that he has been president of the AFSCME, he has quadrupled its membership to just over 1 million, and signed up people thought to be particularly difficult to organize: white-collar workers, women, blacks. His main pitch: an insistence that union membership is the passport not just to better pay but also to "dignity" for workers who, he contends, were long "at the mercy of irresponsible politicians...
That is happening in the Jaycees, the big (377,500 members) organization of young (18 to 35) boosters dedicated to community service and what they call "leadership training." Though they began admitting blacks in the 1940s and seeking blue-collar recruits in the 1960s, the Jaycees have always relegated women to non-voting associate memberships or auxiliaries called Jayceettes...
Some 2 million American families, largely blue-collar or middle-income, are now enrolled in prepaid legal plans similar to the group insurance plans in medicine. A few plans offer a full range of services, including counsel for criminal offenses; most are limited to routine procedures?divorces, wills, house closings, landlord-tenant problems. While the plans have not grown as quickly as consumer advocates had expected, they are considered the likeliest means of giving the middle class legal protections now enjoyed by increasing numbers of the poor (through legal aid programs) and the rich (who can afford...