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...agents and officers stood by, just in case. He was charged with arranging for a Hell's Kitchen gang called the Westies to gun down John O'Connor, an official of a carpenters' union local in Manhattan, in 1986. The alleged motive: O'Connor had trashed a nonunion construction job at a restaurant that the Gambino $ family controlled. "I give you 3-to-1 odds I beat this case," vowed Gotti, before posting a $100,000 bond the next...
...some of their counterparts elsewhere who work at minimum-wage jobs, they still face a stark choice common to many high school-educated children of blue-collar workers: either to make it into a well-paid but precarious union job or to walk off an economic cliff into a nonunion service-sector job that pays a fraction of such wages...
Approximately 20 members of Painters District Council 35, Local 577, began to picket certain Harvard-owned buildings on July 22. The union claimed that contractors hired by the University were using nonunion laborers, of which some were illegal aliens, and paying them wages well below the union level...
...Toyota, are expected to produce 2.2 million cars annually by 1992, up from 618,000 in 1987. That will surely cut into the sales of the U.S. Big Three, which produced 15 million vehicles last year. Detroit fears the new competition because the Japanese plants, which generally employ nonunion labor, have been able to keep operating costs 15% to 20% below those of the Big Three. "We have more vacations, more holidays and more relief time than the Japanese," says Ford Vice Chairman Harold ("Red") Poling. "Those things will be an impediment to achieving the same degree of productivity...
...concessions from unions at Eastern, especially on pilots and machinists, has prompted bitter accusations that the company is flying close to the edge. Pilots for Continental and Eastern claim they are given planes with problems ranging from broken gauges to leaking fuel tanks, while Eastern mechanics say their nonunion foremen frequently vouch for repairs that have not been made. Texas Air attributes ulterior motives to the unions. Says Bruce Hicks, a Continental vice president: "The war cry of 'Safety, safety!' has become the traditional union bargaining method...