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...DISCRIMINATION. The petition lists by name 50 people who have been demoted or fired from their jobs because of strong Christian convictions. A secret memo recently went to factory foremen ordering a purge of Evangelicals from key jobs, the petition says...
Bitsy has another major gripe. Women truckers, she says, often have to pass a "sleeper test"-having sex with a foreman or male driver-to get a job. "I've had trucking foremen tell me not to frustrate the other driver or they'll get someone else to do the job as required," she says. Archie Marietta, president of Teamsters Local 208 in Los Angeles, says that he has never heard of the sleeper test. "But if Bitsy is a good-looking woman," he says, "I wouldn't be surprised if some drivers didn...
...story belongs to Rubery Owen Holdings Ltd., Britain's largest privately owned manufacturing firm. For two weeks, Correspondent William McWhirter followed Managing Director John Owen and Doug Peach, the firm's senior union spokesman, around the company's main plant in Darlaston, and interviewed workers, foremen, efficiency experts and company directors. "I left Darlaston feeling that neither side was to blame," says McWhirter. "It was just, as they would say, 'the situation...
...there has been an extraordinary change as automation has begun to replace both unskilled and semiskilled workers. The man on the production line is giving way to the man who watches the dials or the man who comes in, as a skilled worker, to repair the machine. Repairmen and foremen accounted for 75% of the growth in skilled jobs since...
...Ferrara complains that the statistics I use refer to the whole country, not just California. He is correct; incomes in California are slightly higher (as is the cost of living). But according to the 1970 U.S. Census, the median family income for experienced California farmworkers (including foremen and skilled machine operators) is only $6200 a year, or 52 per cent of the state median. For Chicano farmworkers, the median is $600 lower. According to the Census data, over 20 per cent of all California farmworker families live below the poverty line. For Chicanos, the figure is 28 per cent. Even...