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...company refuses to acknowledge that their foremen can become abusive," said Barbara Sweeney, a spokesman for Local 201 of the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Technical, Salaried and Machine Workers. "The foremen antagonize the stewards to get them to fly off the handle and then suspend them...
...issue of the relationship between union stewards and company foremen has been a chief subject of dispute since the strike was called Feb. 21, after a shop steward was disciplined by the company for swearing at a foreman at GE's Lynn plant...
...hour. Low scorers usually switch into a vocational school, lasting one to two years, that prepares them for factory and service jobs. Those who fare better on the exams gain admission to a more advanced training school that usually lasts four years and turns out electricians, factory foremen and the like. Good students finish high school. After that the winnowing begins anew. Only 20% will go on to one of the country's 66 universities (among the most desirable: Moscow University and the Foreign Relations Institute, also in the capital), while others will enter one of the more than...
...Lackawanna center functions as a touchstone for 3,000 former Bethlehem employees, and is preparing for 3,100 more who will go on layoff before the year is out. So far, most of the people using the center are foremen or white-collar professionals, those least accustomed to periodic layoffs. The Steelworkers union, still angry at Bethlehem's action, has been slow to embrace the program, finding it unsuitable for its members who, as one union man said, "have jobs, not careers...
...most important event of Sunday came late in the evening when Dianne Ham, 33, went to Copelin's room to talk about switching foremen. They agreed that Jackson seemed uncomfortable in the position. In a nearby room, Lawrence Coffey was awake in bed coming to his own decision about Hinckley. "I lay there thinking about his letters to Jodie and to his parents," the burly hotel banquet assistant recalls. "I felt sure he wasn't in his right mind when he shot those people...