Word: nonunion
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...much the same; the laws have had virtually no effect on union or labor relations. There are many ways to get around them. In Virginia unionists in the building trades have found a simple way to defeat the anti-closed-shop provisions of the state law: when a nonunion member shows up on a construction job, union members just get "sick" until he is fired. Union growth has hardly been hampered. Since the Virginia law was passed in 1947, union membership has grown from 100,000 to 150,000. There are other dodges to get around the restriction...
...Pennsylvania Railroad, after paying its first dividend this year, canceled a 10% pay cut for its 633 officials earning above $10,000 yearly. The line also gave a 10% pay hike to nonunion workers making less than $10,000, plus an 8? hourly boost to all union workers...
...Husky, 24-hour-a-day pickets threw firecrackers under his nonunion (by choice) employees, menacingly bellowed out license numbers of customers' cars...
...Supreme Court has long overlooked considerable wear and tear on individual workers' rights in the face of the power of unions. Last week the court, in two sharply written 6-2 opinions, gave individuals a new leverage against union power by upholding 1) the right of a nonunion member to go to court for punitive damages when he is kept from work by a picket line, and 2) the right of a union member to sue when his own union prevents him from getting...
Sole Jurisdiction. In 1952 Paul S. Russell, a nonunion electrician from Decatur, Ala., filed suit against the United Auto Workers for $50,000 damages. He charged that U.A.W. picket lines prevented him from driving to work at Decatur's Wolverine Tube Division of Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Co. plant, sued for five weeks' wages and punitive damages. The Alabama Supreme Court, reversing the lower court, ordered a trial. A jury awarded Russell...