Word: laboration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU) is unpretentious enough, strewn with pro-union posters and staffed by an assistant and a secretary. His stockiness, kind eye and tempered assertiveness create an image more of a humbled, once-great football player than of a powerful and controversial leader. But labor organizer Ray Rogers happens to wield a new weapon that may give workers a power far more effective than the traditional boycott or strike...
...weapon, innocuously labelled the "corporate campaign," uses labor's pension and shareholder power to forcefully alienate corporate and financial supporters from uncompromising corporations. And his target happens to be the monstrous textile manufacturer J.P. Stevens, a corporation Rogers labels "the largest, most ruthless and powerful anti-labor, anti-union corporation in the United States...
...Labor groups think Stevens must become the first domino to topple if they are to successfully organize the largely non-union South. Since 1963, Stevens workers have voted against unionization in 13 of 14 elections held in the company's plants. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that the workers voted under coersion and the threat of illegal firing. When Stevens did not respond to the charges, the ACTWU organizers tried a new tack and joined with the AFL-CIO in launching the much-publicized boycott of J.P. Stevens products in 1976. But like the NLRB warnings, the boycott...
Luis Castro, the Socialist Party candidate, and U.S. Labor Party candidate Lawrence E. Sherman are also on today's preliminary ballot...
...After November 6," King said, "Boston City Hall will no longer be a haven for political hacks and a source of conscript labor to advance the electoral fortunes of the incumbent mayor...