Word: non-union
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...atmosphere, which he says is "just like home," is not the only attraction of the hotel's shop. Their non-union price of $1.75 undercuts the Harvard Square shops by fifty cents...
Promise of Seniority. To replace the 2,000 employees on strike, Hearst has hired 1,200 non-union personnel. Some are professional strikebreakers who travel from one struck paper to the next. But most of them come from suburban papers around Los Angeles, and they aim to stay on. They have been promised that they can keep their jobs when the strike is ended and that they will even have seniority over the strikers. "I don't like being called a strikebreaker," says a 26-year-old reporter who is making $54 more a week at the Examiner than...
...negotiate. Their picketing has proved ineffectual, even when it was reinforced by occasional mob scenes in front of the Examiner. Non-union people were beaten up, windows smashed. But the police have cleared the area of all but the legal number of pickets. The best the unions can do is photograph every person who leaves the building, for a growing file on strikebreakers. Even the Teamsters have not been able to cause much trouble because Hearst has hired non-union drivers to deliver the paper...
...Reward. The worst violence to date occurred last month when two non-union printers were shot in a Los Angeles motel; one died recently. Police have not traced the crime to the unions, but the Examiner had no doubts. In a front-page editorial, the paper put the blame squarely on the strikers. "This cold-blooded murder," said the paper, "heads a long list of crimes and violence since eleven trade unions went on strike." The paper then proceeded to list 150 incidents. "The Herald-Examiner," concluded the editorial, "will not be moved by intimidation." The paper offered...
...grapes on the market and settling for anything less would be selling the customer short. (3) If "Stop and Shop" were to accede to the organizers' request, they would be bound to the same reaction "the next time." And if they had to stop selling every product made by non-union workers they would soon go out of business...