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...Barden had contacts at General Motors, which was eager to get back into the area (it had shut down in South Africa in response to an international campaign against apartheid). After Nujoma visited the U.S. early this year, a deal was struck. Barden will become GM's sole distributor in Namibia. GM will ship 818 cars, vans and trucks there. Barden is building a $19 million plant, expected to be running in January, to convert them from left-hand to right-hand drive, and later to do the same for other vehicles to be sold throughout Africa. The contract Barden...
Although Nash-De Camp's workers are all UFW members, and hence any grapes they pick are exempt from the boycott, the company also acts as a distributor for grapes picked by other growers, all of whom employ non-UFW workers...
...Board of Directors of Cardinal Health Company, a pharmeceutical company with more than 140,000 employees, "is engaged in an activity outside the University that causes severe economic hardship to hundreds of people." He bases this degradation on the fact that the local Teamsters union of a Massachusetts distributor of Cardinal products has walked off the job, and the distributor has brought in replacement workers. Morgan and the PSLM pamphlets overlook several crucial facts of the situation...
Fact: The Directors of a 140,000 employee company do not make the decisions regarding 170 striking workers. It is preposterous to implicate on Board member in the hiring of security to guard the distributor against the striking workers, as Morgan does...
Morris suggests that the secret to his success is simple: pick people who pick catchy songs. He should know, having written the 1966 hit Sweet Talkin' Guy. "He's the only person heading a music distributor who's had success at two major companies," says author Fred Goodman, whose Mansion on the Hill traces the ascent of music moguls. Perhaps the most tantalizing part of his latest job is competing with his old employer. "I don't feel any need for vindication," says Morris about Warner. "That's not to say I don't want our company...