Word: foremen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morale is high. Even though time clocks and foremen's whistles have been thrown out, Company Chief Broadwater believes workers are putting in longer hours. "We're not martyrs, we just want to see this place go," says Union Leader Ciarniello, who attends board meetings. "I'd make a deal with the devil to keep this place open...
...indicates that programs which do involve all workers at the lowest levels are the most dramatically productive. The most famous American experience was probably General Foods' Topeka, Kansas dog food factory. An autonomous team system divided into three areas the entire production and packaging process. Team leaders replaced traditional foremen, acting as co-ordinators rather than intimidators. Workers had responsibility for ordering materials, making changes in the work process, and maintaining equipment. Productivity shot up to over 50 per cent of what industrial engineers expected from their calculations based on traditional work methods...
...February 10, UFW striker Rufino Contreras, 27, was shot in the face with a .38 caliber bullet by three grower foremen when he tried to talk with strikebreakers in a lettuce field near El Centro, California. His killers escaped justice when a local judge dismissed murder charges without taking testimony from farm worker eyewitnesses to the slaying...
Strikebreaking is big business in California. Fwrm labor contractors, smugglers and ranch foremen, many with ties to the criminal element, make rich profits by breaking strikes...
...administrative or professional jobs is a problem. "The trouble is that moving up in that area the number of positions becomes devilishly limited," Cantor says. A typical Harvard department might have ten office workers and one administrator, but an industry would have larger departments, with a foreman, three assistant foremen, six supervisors and many assistant supervisors under them...