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Yesterday's attempt was the second time students tried to serve a subpoena to Cash on behalf of the Knight-Ridder employees...
Robinson Professor of Business Administration James I. Cash sits on the Board of Directors of the Knight-Ridder Corporation. The subpoena would require him to testify on May 1 about a labor dispute between the corporation and the employees of several newspapers owned by Knight-Ridder...
...Cash has to be forced to face the fact that the decisions he makes on behalf of Knight-Ridder have a real effect on workers in Detroit," Hodes said...
According to Hennefeld, the Detroit union has had success with its appeals to other high profile board members. In particular, Rosalynn Carter, wife of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, resigned from the Knight-Ridder Board because of the labor dispute...
...year. Harvard professor WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON published When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, which he had hoped would influence the debate on welfare reform. It did, but it was too late to head off a welfare bill he opposed. PHIL KNIGHT, CEO of Nike, saw a 77% increase in profits last quarter. That was clouded by the report of a Vietnamese-American labor activist that many Nike shoes are produced at plants in Vietnam where the mostly female work force faces corporal punishment and 12-hr. workdays. All that for about $1.60 a day. Nike promised...