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...company keeps 12,000 employees voting nonunion by means of lavish stock-purchase plans and bonuses for faster work. And it keeps stockholders satisfied with monthly dividend checks (minimum check: 9? on a single share). The unique monthly payment system adds $42,000 a year to costs, but Winn-Dixie believes that it helps sales and employee relations. Says J.E.: "Our customers quite often cash their checks in our stores, and when an employee gets a dividend check at the end of each month, man, he's happy." So are the Davises, who predict that sales in the coming...
Union leaders do not intend to give up, have spotted an opening to start their next battle on the issue. In its remarks in the Florida case, the court objected to unions charging the nonunion workers involved a service fee that was equal to union dues, which cover union services beyond collective bargaining. What if the agency-shop contract was modified to call for fees that are less than union dues? The labor leaders aim to find...
...started in the U.S. in the last 30 years-nearly a score in all-has done a quick fadeout as soon as the regulars returned to the newsstands. In Portland the regulars never really left; for six months they published a joint, typo-marred paper; then they hired enough nonunion help to resume separate operations...
...Perry County's working miners, most are hired by small, nonunion companies that survive only by paying coolie wages...
When 300 pickets tried to close down a nonunion mine in Hazard, state troopers were armed with submachine guns. The United Mine Workers disowned the roving pickets, urged everybody to calm down. That was like pleading with a rattlesnake to uncoil. The violence sim ply increased, and Kentucky's Democratic Governor Bert Combs admitted that a "dangerous situation" existed. It was likely to get worse before it got better...