Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mines. But here's Pat Buchanan--a man whose campaign letterhead features a roster of CEOS--running around the country and bashing Big Business to sensational effect. The guardians of conservative p.c. are pummeling him as a traitor and a "left-winger" in every medium they command. Blue-collar people, in at least some settings, are embracing him as the great white hope--a sort of depigmented Jesse Jackson with a snarl...
...protege of the Tricky One could be naive enough to believe that free trade and "globalization" are the only source of the blue-collar blues. AT&T, for example, isn't planning to hire Malaysians or Mexicans to replace the 30,000 American workers whose layoffs have just been announced. When corporations want to boost the price of their stock or the pay of their executives by downsizing or lowering wages, they don't need any help from NAFTA or GATT...
Yavlinsky's party, Yabloko, is the only reform-minded opposition group with a serious chance to win a large number of seats this election year. In democratic strongholds like St. Petersburg, the group tops party preference polls, attracting white-collar professionals. Yavlinsky has kept his personal ratings high by shunning coalitions with other reformers who have been tainted by involvement in the Yeltsin administration...
...budget needs to be balanced which clearly it does, then everyone must share the pain--even, God forbid college students. This is especially true at Harvard, where graduates often earn large incomes; it's hard to claim that we need subsidies paid for by the tax dollars of blue-collar workers. Sean Peirce...
Nationwide, union membership is already up a total of 3%, to 16.6 million workers, in 1993 and 1994--snapping a 14-year decline. Virtually all growth is among white-collar, service and public-sector employees. Nevertheless, labor's gains still lagged behind the increase in the number of wage and salary workers, which grew some 4% from 1992 to 1994; that caused the share of unionized jobs to continue to fall. "As employment goes up, unions will grow," Donahue says. "The trouble is that as fast as we gain new members, we lose others to corporate downsizing...