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Executive Producer Glenn Litton said last week that Nozick's interviews will "communicate a very open and practical way of looking at philosophy, not necessarily for the classroom but for the public marketplace...
...series will be filmed on location at the homes and offices of its guests in order to engender an "informal and lively setting." Litton added...
Craig Darby, chief steward for Local 1180 of the United Electrical Workers, charged, "It has been open season on workers who support the union" since organizing efforts began in 1978 at Litton's transplanted (from Minneapolis) microwave-oven plant in Sioux Falls, S. Dak. After workers voted in the union, Darby charged, Litton canceled a February pay raise, took away a dozen paid sick days and began a harsh new absentee policy that led to dozens of firings. "I don't understand," said Darby, "why a Litton can just laugh...
...Litton insists that it is not anti-union or systematically trying to keep unions out of its plants. One-fifth of the firm's 65,000 workers in the U.S. are members of more than two dozen different labor organizations. Said Mathias Diederich, Litton's director of industrial relations: "There were no mass firings, and there has never been a case where it has been determined that a plant has been closed due to union activity...
...major union demand last week was that Litton be treated as a single employer, rather than a series of independent companies, in terms of labor-law violations. Such action could have wide-ranging implications for American conglomerates. Says Charles Craypo, a Cornell professor who has studied Litton's union relations: "Conglomerate structure gives the employer an institutional advantage over unions that can be exercised effectively." If Litton is ruled a single employer, the whole company, under proposed legislation, could be listed as a repeat violator of labor laws and lose all its Government contracts. Last year Litton Industries...