Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both Russo and Seymour Newburger, engineer estimator at the A.A. Will Corporation, the library's excavation contractor, said yesterday the contractors might have to conduct less blasting than anticipated...
...Richard Russo, the project manager at Bond Brothers Construction Company, the general contractor for excavation work and utilities preparation, said that "I don't think you'll find any of the drilling to be that noisy" because the company has "whisper compressors...
...consumer boycott dragged growers kicking and screaming into the 20th Century. Now, when the UFW's hard-won contracts are up for renewal along come Teamster honchos who, without a word to the workers, sign a ready-made contract with the growers. That Teamster contract reinstitutes the notorious Labor Contractor hiring system, reduces the workers' already minimal pay, imposes no restrictions on the use of man-killing pesticides and leaves the workers without any effective medical benefits. There are other cruel inadequacies in the Teamsters' sweetheart contract, but that should be enough to make you lose your taste for grapes...
...next bunch of growers with UFW contracts to renew (in July) will follow the lead of their Coachella peers and invite the Teamsters to "organize" the fields on their terms i.e., a lower hourly wage; no restriction on the use of condemned sprays; reinstitution of the slave-labor contractor system (shades of the '30's!); a medical plan that neatly excludes seasonal workers! Those great humanitarians of the Teamsters' Western Conference aren't squeamish about growers using a derivative of nerve gas. Why should they be -- the Teamsters' well-paid "negotiators" will never have to work in those deadly fields...
Meanwhile, Richardson had helped to bring Anderson into the Royal Court theater. Over the years Anderson has also made a reputation as an unflashy, deeply sensitive stage director, notably with productions of several plays by Storey, including The Contractor, Home, and The Changing Room-low-keyed, subtly poetic accounts of seemingly mundane lives...