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...recently as 1971, only 13 of the company's 1,828 over-the-road drivers were members of minorities. Like almost all trucking companies, T.I.M.E.-DC had two seniority systems, one for over-the-road drivers, the other for workers in more menial jobs. If a warehouse cargo loader became a driver, he had to begin building seniority all over again at his truck terminal. The Government claimed that was unjust, especially for blacks, who would have begun building seniority as drivers had they not been confined to menial jobs in the first place. In its decision, the court...
...steel-storage department, a dispute over what to pay the driver of a side-loader truck has bogged down at the worker, foreman and department-supervisor levels. Doug Peach enters the negotiations at the fourth stage of a ritualized dispute procedure that calls for as many as seven steps leading up to John Owen's office. The difference in question is $5 a week. At a parley in the manager's office, Peach is told that another Rubery Owen plant pays the lower rate ($87.55 a week...
Miller called Durocher a "free-loader riding the backs of his fellow managers and players, "but Durocher continued to refuse to pay a $250 fine imposed by National League President Chubb Feeney...
...away from this here place just like my brothers did," he said. "Reason why I never did is every time I went somewhere I'd drink up what I worked for in beer joints." He used to cut timber and work in the coal mines as a loader, and even went to Baltimore toward the end of World War 11 to work in the shipyards ("That was in '45, I think. That's when that war was in Germany, ain't it?"). After the war a harrowing experience in the mines taught him to stay away...
...blacks must spend more-not only for higher rents, but also to travel farther to work (an average eight miles v. six miles for whites). Only about 15% have cars. In addition, the most available jobs for ghetto blacks are the city's worst: janitor, forklift loader, punch-press operator, hospital orderly...