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...Powers was fighting a long holding action against the inevitable, and his strength steadily eroded. The Times and News purchased automated equipment and set up a training center for nonunion personnel in New Jersey. Last spring Powers launched a series of work slowdowns at the News; as the size of the daily paper shrank and advertising losses mounted, management installed its new equipment and threatened to use it if the printers did not resume normal schedules. When the deadline for compliance passed, the new machinery (manned by office help) was rushed into use, and Powers took...
...movement and has called on his flock of 275,000 to boycott lettuce and other vegetables picked by nonunion labor...
...raise their pay about 10% the first year (see following story). Escalator clauses in union contracts are further increasing pay; Eckstein calculates that an escalator in the steel pact will raise wages in that industry 4½% to 5% this year all by itself. Finally, Eckstein believes that many nonunion employers are handing out generous across-the-board wage boosts that they feel they can no longer avoid in a time of double-digit inflation...
...beatings during a U.M.W. organizing drive in the 1930s. The U.M.W. is convinced that Eastover will never settle unless the parent Duke Power insists that it do so. And Eastover needs to hold out only three more months before it can campaign for another bargaining election, in which nonunion workers might be eligible to vote. Should the U.M.W. be defeated, 40 strikers could lose not only their jobs but their homes; their right to keep living in company-owned housing would be questionable. By Harlan County standards, last week's activity on Wall Street was gentlemanly, but tempers...
Butler said the wages of Harvard lithographers compare favorably with those of most lithographers in the area. Norton countered Butler's claim, saying it was misleading to compare the wages of Harvard lithographers with those of nonunion lithographers...