Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the strike is as much ideological as economic. The enemy is what the unions call "Boulwarism," a labor-relations strategy unveiled in 1948 by Lemuel R. Boulware, then a G.E. vice president and now retired. Boulwarism is based on two tenets. First, the company should make a "firm, fair" offer at the start of negotiations and refuse to budge from it. Second, the company should engage in vigorous "employee marketing" to sell the merits of its offer...
...Perrier desires Genvrain, the largest company in France's inefficient and fragmented dairy industry. The French government heartily approves Perrier's bid, which would both foil any foreign attempt to take over Genvrain and represent a major move toward consolidating France's 3,000 scattered dairy firms. Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing indicates as much in a meeting with the publicity-shy strategist of Perrier's expansion, President Gustave Leven. Perrier makes a generous proposal for Genvrain: $56 a share for stock that was selling for $45 on the Bourse. Genvrain would...
More than 200 students, most of them members of the Afro-American Society, blocked workers attempting to enter the site yesterday morning. The students were protesting the allegedly discrimina-tory hiring practices of the Volpe Construction Company, a firm owned by the family of U. S. Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe...
...Monday, President Burton C. Hallowell filed suit against the Volpe Company to determine whether the firm's hiring practices have been violating contract clauses and government regulations...
...Tufts administration has supported Afro's demands for 20 per cent employment of minority-group members in recent negotiations with the construction firm. At present, only four of the 108-man work force are black, and only two are Puerto Ricans...