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...group that will be forced to pay consists of workers at plants forced out of business by antipollution standards that the owners cannot meet economically. The first major corporation to raise that specter was Union Carbide, which threatened last fall to lay off 625 employees at its plant in Marietta, Ohio, in order to meet air-emission standards. The company has since reversed its decision, but several other marginal plants, including three West Coast sulfite pulp mills owned by Crown-Zellerbach, have been closed down. A group of District 50 Allied and Technical Union members sent Muskie a list...
...white block letters on a funeral black background, a sign in the employment office of Lockheed's Marietta, Ga., plant carries a curt message: NO JOBS AVAILABLE, SALARY OR HOURLY. In the past 18 months, 12,000 Lockheed workers have been dismissed. Typical of them, Larry Cline, an $8,500-a-year assembler, was given only two days' notice that he was through. That was six months ago. For most of the time since then, he has measured out his days in a gray, boring round of job-hunting, shopping and cooking. His wife Linda has taken work...
...refusing to hire Mrs. Ida Phillips as an assembly-line trainee in Orlando, Fla., the Martin Marietta Corp. explained that it did employ women, but not mothers of preschool-age children, presumably because of absenteeism. Last week, in its first such ruling, the Supreme Court unanimously declared that the company's policy violated the sex-equality provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The court gave Martin Marietta one out: it can still try to prove that women like Mrs. Phillips are less able to do the job than men who have equally young children. Only in that case...
Carbide's Marietta plant, which makes iron alloys necessary for the production of steel, releases 44,568 pounds of dirt and dust and 246,550 pounds of sulfur oxides every day into the Ohio valley air, not from smoke-stacks, but from large holes in the roof of the factory...
...Union Carbide has chosen to pursue a course of duplicity and intimidation, evidently designed...to frighten the people of the Marietta region into quiet submission," Nader said...