Word: foremen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countries. Visão (circ. 45,886), a sister publication to Visión, is a Portuguese-language news weekly in Brazil. In addition, the company has a half interest in Semana, a news weekly published in Bogota, Colombia, owns the profitable business-pamphleteering ("Just Between Office Girls") National Foremen's Institute...
...Union control over naming of foremen...
...seemingly endless days of overwork, 200 missilemen reported in at Florida's Cape Canaveral missile test center one murky night last week to give the Atlas its final preening before flight. In a blockhouse a few hundred feet from the launching pad, physicists and engineers started radioing to foremen the long lists that comprised the exquisitely detailed ritual of inspection. Fitted together in the great steel bird's innards were some 300,000 parts, and a failure in one of them could cause a misfire...
...opened: "We'd like to talk to you about the difference Jesus Christ makes on the job." This week they are holding a series of evening meetings in a local Baptist church (chosen for its location rather than denomination) which are addressed by machine operators, clerks, union leaders, foremen and company officials. Slogan of the two-week crusade: "Just the job"-a non-U British expression synonymous with "just the ticket...
...Featherbedding occurs at top level management and extends down to the rank of foremen," said A.I.M. in a report to its 17,000 members. And one of the biggest causes of featherbedding is nepotism. In more than half of the 23,000 U.S. companies A.I.M. studied, an executive had put his sons, cousins, brothers -even an assortment of relatives-on the payroll...