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...beginning of last summer, the AFL-CIO's United Farm Workers' Organizing Committee (UFWOC) decided it would finally try to unionize the fresh grape industry. In July, they sent a team of experienced organizers to the Giumarra Vineyards Corporation, largest producer of fresh grapes in the world, near Bakersfield, Calif. It took three weeks for the union men to present their case to the farm workers. By the end of July they had voted unanimously to strike...
...their attempts to counter the boycott, the Giumarra family have proved unusually resourceful. On August 5, they called a secret meeting of lawyers for the country's largest grape producers. The UFWOC learned from an informant who was present at the meeting that the growers would allow Giumarra to market grapes under all of their labels. Before the boycott effort had been initiated, Giu- marra sold grapes under six labels; the two most well known were "Arra Grapes" and "Grape King." Now, according to union information, there are at least 35 different labels used for grapes grown by Giumarra...
There are ten large chain stores in Boston. Each was visited by one of the organizers accompanied by the head of the largest union local employed by the chain. They asked the company to switch their brand of grapes. Only two have cooperated so far and cancelled their order from Giumarra until the conclusion of the strike...
...options, the opposite of calls, entice bears who figure that the price of a stock will fall. Puts give the purchaser the right to sell 100 shares of stock at a set price at a future date. Last March, Manhattan's Thomas, Haab & Botts, one of the largest put-and-call dealers, sold a put option on Fairchild Camera for $1,750. It permitted the buyer to sell 100 shares of Fairchild stock at $119 a share any time before Sept. 26. By last week, that stock had dropped to $92, enabling the put holder to buy the stock...
...escape persecution in Geneva has the French border village of Ferney-subsequently renamed Ferney-Voltaire-seen so much excitement. The current fuss is being caused by another refugee from Geneva, controversial Bernard Cornfeld, 40, an American expatriate who has built his eleven-year-old Investors Overseas Services into the largest mutual-fund sales organization outside the U.S. When Bernie Cornfeld decided to move his Swiss-based I.O.S. across the border eight months ago, wags mindful of the 18th century precedent started referring to the town as "Bernie-Voltaire...