Word: non-union
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...PSLM really wants to ennoble Harvard’s workers, how about giving them some agency in fighting injustice? PSLM makes one crucial point: the fact that Harvard outsources to non-union labor is not only exploitative but also cowardly. Make unionization the primary focus of the campaign, and forget about trying to impose an arbitrary wage standard...
...talks about a huge boycott against Procter & Gamble," says Robbins. "I don't think P&G wants celebrities telling America not to buy their products." This week O'Donnell asked Procter & Gamble and two of her other sponsors, Kellogg's and General Motors, not to run commercials made with non-union talent...
...employers. Producers and casting directors are trying to conduct business as usual, especially as the normally flush season for shooting Christmas and Super Bowl spots begins. But New York's major commercial agents are not showing off their Crest smiles. Signatories to the SAG contract, they cannot work on non-union projects. That leaves them with something they hate to do: nothing. "You see me spending all this time talking to you on the phone?" barks one top commercial agent, who sounds as if he could have hired himself from Central Casting. "That's 'cause my other line...
...with the recent revelation that State Farm, the nation's largest car insurer, alerted the government and Firestone to an unusually large number of claims for the bad tires as far back as 1997. And on Wednesday, former workers at Firestone's Decatur, Ill., plant, who were replaced by non-union workers during a 1994-96 strike, gave depositions that their supervisors had put quantity ahead of quality. Many of the suspect tires were made there. Firestone says those testifying are disgruntled employees. Also, attorneys want the recall to be widened to include all 47 million tires produced, which Ford...
...seniority: Verizon also agreed to use union workers for DSL installation jobs (it had wanted to farm the high-growth area out to non-union labor to avoid strict union work rules) but won the right to choose its teams rather than automatically award the coveted task to the most senior union members...