Word: non-union
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...past, union officials have complained about the University's practice of subcontracting some jobs to non-union workers. The leaders of Harvard's seven unions formed a coalition last month to address the issue...
GEORGE BUSH DEVELOPED A SUDDEN INTEREST IN labor law last Monday, the very day that the AFL-CIO leadership endorsed Bill Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination. Bush issued a directive ordering all federal contractors to notify their non-union employees in union shops that they may decline to have their dues diverted to political candidates they do not support. Bush broke no new ground here -- the Supreme Court established that principle in a 1988 ruling. That is why the Bush pronouncement had the sound of an election-year effort to placate the restless right wing of the Republican Party...
Chief among the issues addressed by the union leaders at the coalition's first meeting last week was the University's policy of subcontracting some jobs to non-union workers...
...Using non-union subcontractors makes it hardfor union workers to compete for projects, Monahansaid...
...practices such as these that have soured many American workers' views of unions. Violence against non-union workers is common in labor disputes, especially when unions are on strike. And the threat of violence against "scab" workers who cross picket lines necessitates the use of police to rule out such violence, costing taxpayers large amounts of money...