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...target has been J.P. Stevens & Co., the second largest U.S. textile maker, which for more than 16 years has fought off unionization despite repeated warnings by the National Labor Relations Board and three contempt citations by federal courts. Labor regards cracking Stevens as the key to organizing the largely nonunion South. The ACTWU aims at isolating Stevens by making it a pariah to other business and financial institutions. Says Rogers: "The ultimate goal of the corporate campaign is, if necessary, to totally alienate and polarize the corporate and Wall Street communities away from J.P. Stevens...
...Government contracts from firms that breached his wage-price guidelines. The loss of the procurement sanction undercuts management's ability to resist granting powerful unions, already contemptuous of the guidelines, fat pay raises. A rash of big settlements for organized labor could also pull up wages for many nonunion workers, who are close to 60% of the work force, and put an even faster spin on the price spiral...
Rich settlements for Big Labor can only widen the pay gap between its members, who have been gaining increases of 8½% to 9% so far this year, and nonunion workers, who have been getting wage-and-benefit increases averaging 7½%. Says Economist Audrey Freedman of the Conference Board, a private research group: "Managers who want to hold on to their best people are getting very uncomfortable with the disparity in pay between union and nonunion workers." Adds Economist Robert Nathan, a Washington consultant who has close ties to labor: "If unions' increases continue to be large...
...lower personal and corporate taxes next year by $15 to $30 billion. Though the President's anti-inflation wage-price guidelines have had only marginal success in holding down settlements for big unions, the majority of the board members would preserve them because they have kept wages of nonunion workers lower than they might have been...
...aggressive tactics of striking workers have led to a growing anti-union sentiment. Particularly offensive to many Britons are the truckers' "flying pickets," who race from one point to another, hampering deliveries by nonunion drivers. A bill enacted by the Labor government of Harold Wilson in 1974 is allowing truckers to hold the entire nation virtually at ransom by preventing shipments to plants and businesses with no direct role in the union negotiations. More than 200,000 workers have been laid off from factories idled by a lack of raw materials and supplies. Almost $2 billion worth of imports...