Word: fletcherize
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...Black workers have no one in the union they can rely on." Diorite C. Fletcher '71 said. "That is why some of us who are black are here. Black painters have to be careful because they need their jobs and can't trust their foreman or union officials to represent them...
...Miss Fletcher then moved around Kinnard and confronted Butler. "I want to single you out for the most insidious, most racist, most history-repeating performance I've ever seen," she said. "You take a black brother-one with five babies-and you bring him in here and pull the fucking strings and don't let him say what he wants...
General Director of the Association, William Schwartz, Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University Law School, said, "We have a very energetic and active department of public affairs connected with great public issues. For example, on the entire question of auto safety, to a great extent, we were responsible for improvements in auto production...
...project manager on a construction job employing about 150 union construction workers, I can perhaps answer Assistant Labor Secretary Arthur Fletcher's question, "Why should a Negro who can be a college-trained engineer want to be a plumber?" [Sept. 26]. He can make more money as a union plumber...
...years, a period that many experts consider at least twice as long as necessary. Union officials contend that the system is vital to maintain standards of workmanship. "The apprenticeship program is so rigged that it would take a college-level black to get in," .says Assistant Labor Secretary Arthur Fletcher. "Why should a Negro who can be a college-trained engineer want to be a plumber...