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John J. Kovacevich and his son, Adam's brother, John Jr., spend more than eight hours each day on their non-union farm...
Moreover, he says that descriptions of bad working conditions on non-union farms like his are widely exaggerated...
...true that there would be few grapes on Harvard's tables if the student body approved this option. Why? There are currently fewer than 300 workers who belong to the UFW. This is because employers do not like to hire union workers. UFW members cost more to hire than non-union members, and they have to be treated better since employers are subject to worker power. Nevertheless, if Harvard is determined only to buy UFW-picked grapes, more farmers might be encouraged to hire UFW workers...
...submitted the bid, Wynne says, he got cold feet and slashed an additional 50[cents] a ton off the delivered price: it came in at $24.85, 19% lower than last year's. Wynne says he trimmed the bid to the bone because the jobs of Mettiki's 260 non-union workers, 30% of whom live in West Virginia, were every bit as much at stake as the jobs across the Potomac River. The men who actually work at the face of the mine (as opposed to some maintenance and support workers on the "outside") receive wages and benefits comparable...
...first primary," says TIME's James Carney. "Gore is definitely running, and while Gephardt stopped short of admitting it, he is certainly Gore's leading competition." It was a tough crowd. Both Democrats tried to assuage union concerns that welfare reform will flood the job market with low-paid, non-union labor, hence further undermining organized labor. While Gephardt, a longtime friend of labor whose father was a Teamster, promised to introduce legislation to encourage former welfare recipients finding new jobs to join unions, Gore promised that President Clinton would veto any bill that forces employees to choose between overtime...