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...jobs are out there for the picking. Thanks to deregulation of the trucking industry in 1980, there is a growing demand for nonunion drivers. Tighter licensing procedures and drug screening have worsened the trucker shortage. As a result, beginners can select from a variety of offers, some paying more than $30,000 a year...
Sometimes a spartan one. CNN bolsters its profits (an estimated $60 million last year) through a minimal use of high-cost graphics and glitz, and by maintaining a notoriously low-paid nonunion staff. Shaw does not divulge his salary ("It's between me and the IRS"), but insists that it is not comparable to the millions paid to his network rivals. In any case, the exemplar of CNN spareness takes a dim view of such excess. Says he: "Beware of anchormen who ride in limousines...
...drawn-out beer boycott began in 1977, when the brewery hired nonunion workers to replace 1,500 employees who had walked off their jobs to protest a proposed labor contract. Lately, a new Coors marketing push in the Northeast has been stymied by the campaign. At such lucrative beer-drinking venues as New York City's Shea Stadium and Boston's Fenway Park, vendors had refused to sell the boycotted brew...
Ronald Reagan probably thought he had seen the last of unions in the control tower six years ago, after he fired 11,400 striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. Now the nonunion replacements for the old PATCO members are 12,800 strong and have just formed -- you guessed it -- a union. This one is called NATCA (for National Air Traffic Controllers Association), and last week it won certification by a 2- to-1 vote...
Equally controversial is a bill that would prohibit the widespread construction-industry practice known as "double-breasting," in which companies operate two subsidiaries, one unionized and the other nonunion. Critics charge that this practice is merely a way for firms to circumvent collective-bargaining agreements. If the proposed bill passes, these companies would have to choose to be either exclusively union or nonunion. Labor leaders believe the law would produce more unionized shops, but some companies indicate they might try to shut out their unions. Such is the case at Phelps Inc., a 2,000-employee construction firm based...