Word: hiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year and a half ago Harvard started the Painters' Helpers Training Program. Previously it had advertised for journeymen painters, but because of the low wages was unable to get them. This Helper Program was designed to hire qualified black painters as helpers. The applicants were told that there were no openings for journeymen at this particular time and that if they could perform the work satisfactorily they would be promoted to journeymen within the year. A year later this program and these men found that they would not only have to stay in this program for another year but also...
...Women's Faculty Group hopes that wide distribution of its preliminary report will stimulate individual departments to examine whether their recruitment procedures are functioning to locate and hire qualified female scholars," Mrs. Bynum said...
...deductible fund raising can create in the way of illusions. It was conceived, promoted and almost executed by Henry O. Dormann, 38, who has said that he is a millionaire and whose closest association with scholarship is a book, A Millionaire's Guide to Europe (sample advice: "Hire yourself a private railway train"). The editor-owner of Servicio de Information Pan Americana, an obscure public relations service, and an operator in real estate and advertising, Dormann set up the library in 1965 for the grand purpose of collecting all possible presidential documents, either in original or microfilm form...
...white demonstrators. At one site Nate Smith, a former professional boxer and at that time head of a self-help organization called Operation Dig, dragged a superintendent to the edge of a fifth-floor framework and told him, as Ebony magazine reported, "Look, m.f., if you don't hire my men, I'm gonna drop you." The superintendent hired eleven...
Policy Sabotage. Top management often makes a no-discrimination proclamation but neglects to get the message across to department supervisors -the men who actually hire, fire and promote. The result is a type of policy sabotage that Tom Sims, a black advertising man in Manhattan, calls the "not-in-my-department syndrome." That is, in spite of orders from the summit, middle management resists and undercuts the policy of equal opportunity. The resistance is not necessarily based on racism. Some supervisors are simply reluctant to depart from the status quo or make the considerable extra effort to provide training...