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...workers, the more relaxed regulations governing non-union labor can mean harder work and lower wages. Also, not all employees dismissed by the University find work in the "real world...
...look at the steel and auto industries in the U.S. which are union and at their foreign, non-union competition, you'll see there's a major difference [in efficiency]," he said. But Powers added that the University is trying to be as cost-effective as possible. "I don't think it's just the unions--in the structural trades and the custodial services, many contractors are unionized," he said...
About 50 truck drivers and warehousemen from the August A. Busch Co. plant picketed outside the museum to show their sympathy for 16 of the distributor's non-union clerical employees who walked off their jobs on October...
...Bozzotto and his union have displayed a creative and democratic approach to the problem of maintaining workers' incomes and employment in a time of layoffs and labour wage concessions. They have chosen to go down a rather risky road in presenting Harvard--an employer that has easy recourse to non-union help--with such a militantly determined bargaining stance. The threat of a strike, and the attendant possibility that the University might call in non-union workers, make student support for the dining hall workers bid for a fair contract critically important...
...could make the whole structure disintegrate. And while the Democrats can praise Reich's book and use some of his ideas for the 1984 platform, it is going to be hard for them to push labor into abandoning their hold on the smokestacks and going into unfamiliar and largely non-union high tech waters. The problems are there and Reich clearly elucidates them. But whether his calls are loud enough to get people moving is the real question...