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William Bywater, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers, told the subcommittee that at Litton's Triad-Utrad division in Huntington, Ind., the company had squelched five organizing campaigns by four different unions between 1964 and 1982. During an organizing drive in 1980, charged Bywater, Litton once again started a "massive campaign of fear and intimidation" to stop workers from supporting the union...
...Litton Industries (1982 sales: $4.9 billion) now has the dubious honor of succeeding J.P. Stevens, the textile firm, as organized labor's favorite target. Last week representatives of six unions told a meeting of the House Subcommittee on Labor-Management Relations that the giant high-tech conglomerate and defense contractor had repeatedly thwarted their efforts to organize workers. They claimed that the company closed plants before unions could get in, refused to negotiate contracts after employees had voted for a union, and even booted out organized labor once it had won the right to represent workers...
...however, the eagerness of Gritz's colleagues to tell their stories to Soldier of Fortune magazine, among others, did serve to embarrass their improbable group of backers and suppliers, who, it turns out, included Actors Clint Eastwood, 52, and William Shatner, 51, as well as the California-based Litton Industries. Eastwood is mum on his reasons for donating a reported $30,000, while Shatner claims that his $10,000 was paid solely in return for the rights to the life story of Gritz, who is believed to be still in Southeast Asia...
...clash of corporate cultures may, in fact, help to explain why many highflying 1960s conglomerates such as Litton Industries, LTV and RCA later stumbled. By swallowing up companies with widely different cultures, some conglomerate leviathans all but invited interoffice quarreling and management disputes. In many cases the only way to resolve such problems has been to spin the acquired companies off, sometimes at a painful loss...
...International is a victim of technological change. The 58-year-old firm was struggling as a manufacturer of old-fashioned duplicating machines in an age of Xerox copiers when Roy Ash, former head of Litton Industries and Budget Director in the Nixon Administration, took over in 1976 as chairman. Ash immediately began buying up companies that manufactured electronic office equipment and moved the company headquarters from Cleveland to Los Angeles. The new products, including word processors, copier devices and credit-card billing systems, soaked up millions of dollars in development costs, and AM International's profits fell sharply...