Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standards. The NLRB has cited the company 15 times since 1965 for violations of federal labor laws. Stevens has been forced to offer jobs back to 125 dismissed workers and give them and other employees $1.3 million in back pay and other compensation. The company closed one carpet-yarn mill in Statesboro, Ga., after a court ruling that management had to bargain in good faith with the union; Stevens says the mill was shut because demand for its product "declined drastically." In 1974 the union won an election at seven Stevens plants in Roanoke Rapids, N.C., but 2½ years...
...women and girl cotton-mill operatives staged a walkout in Dover, New Hampshire, to protest wage reductions. This was one of the first instances of organized labor activity in America, representing the growing militancy of women workers...
...bargain $110 per person, including hotels, meals and guides for a week, groups of 40 tourists will gambol through mechanized mine shafts, mephitic chemical plants and the computer-guided rollers of Krupp's behemoth steel mill in Essen. Lest romance wilt amid the furnaces, adventurers will be whisked away for interludes at centuries-old castles above the once-green valley. Club Med officials hardly need run scared. Still, some 5,000 tourists have signed up to see the Ruhr...
...vacation" program, putting some restrictions on overtime and banning millowners from contracting out work, such as construction, that could be performed in house by Steelworkers' members. The aim: more workers will be needed to turn out any given tonnage of steel, so fewer layoffs will be necessary, and mill bosses can guarantee employment to workers who have reached a certain seniority (20 years' service, the union has hinted). Bredhoff speculates that a lifetime-security plan could be funded by an industry-wide pool, providing paychecks even for workers whose employer goes out of business...
...downtrodden, a champion of militant bargaining with the industry who would also work for social change through unionism. But basic Steelworkers average about $8 an hour, hardly a depressed wage; many live in the suburbs, and few are disposed to left-leaning politics. Surprisingly for a third-generation "mill rat," Sadlowski turned many workers off by referring repeatedly to "the shop floor," an expression that mill hands...