Word: non-union
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...strike began after the B&M hired a non-union contractor to repair a boiler at the railroad's offices in North Billerica, Gloria Stone, a B&M spokesman, said yesterday...
...Stevens products drew similar fire. That corporation has been cited for more than 100 labor law violations by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Stevens, the largest textile mill employing only non-union workers, has been charged with maintaining unsafe working conditions. Attempts to organize workers have failed repeatedly, and organizers have said the failures result because Stevens frightens and physically intimidates workers thinking about unionizing. Observers also have suggested that Stevens finds it cheaper to pay fines doled out for violations than to take the steps necessary to correct work situations cited as dangerous...
...CHANGES. Federal judges had thrown out the old racist political arrangements and blacks were getting a piece of the pie. The pie was shrinking, because the paper mill had closed half its operations and moved them to a new, non-union mill. The safety nets were fraying, because parents were finding their leftover male/female roles didn't fit with two-breadwinner families, and other relatives were growing old and passing away. Families had moved, friends had scattered, gotten married, divorced. It was an old story, but one the kids had never heard...
...CHANGES. Federal judges had thrown out the old racist political arrangements and blacks were getting a piece of the pie. The pie was shrinking, because the paper mill had closed half its operations and moved them to a new, non-union mill. The safety nets were fraying, because parents were finding their leftover male/female roles didn't fit with two-breadwinner families, and other relatives were growing old and passing away. Families had moved, friends had scattered, gotten married, divorced. It was an old story, but one the kids had never heard...
...must not be overlooked that multinational corporations locate in South Africa in large part because of the opportunity to earn a rate of return far in excess of that available in their home countries. These extra profits are in turn made possible by the existence of a large, non-union, underpayed non-white labor force deprived of elemental civic, political and legal rights and protections...