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...employees will select three of the 12 UAL directors, who together will possess veto power over certain issues such as asset sales and acquisitions. In exchange, the employees will put up $4.9 billion in wage and benefit concessions over 51(R)2 years, ranging from 8.25% in givebacks for nonunion officeworkers and ticket agents to 14.7% for ground crews and 15.7% for pilots. The whole package will reduce United's labor costs...
Here and there, unions are even winning some battles. A Teamsters strike in April forced major trucking companies to stop using part-time, nonunion drivers. The same month, the Communication Workers of America got Nynex, one of the biggest of the new Baby Bell telephone companies, to reverse plans to lay off 22,000 workers. Under a new contract, Nynex will not lay off anybody over the next four years; it will try instead to induce workers to retire early by offering them six years of extra pension benefits...
Militance as well as membership is on the rise. Repeatedly defeated by ; fierce employer resistance -- especially the practice of firing strikers and hiring permanent, nonunion replacements -- unions had almost abandoned the strike weapon. Fewer than 4 million workdays were lost to strikes and lockouts in 1993, the lowest figure in the 47 years that the government has been keeping those statistics and less than one-fifteenth of the record 60.9 million in 1959. A comparison of the first four months of this year to the same period in 1993 shows that the number of workers on strike tripled...
...International Union. That's weekdays in the buildings; on weekends she calls on the janitors at home. The union now represents janitors in 45% of downtown buildings, vs. only 19% a year ago. But the gains are threatened by building owners who try to switch contracts from union to nonunion cleaning firms. To stop one owner from taking three buildings nonunion, 15 janitors and organizers staged a mock funeral, carrying a coffin symbolizing "the death of justice" past the owner's home in one of Washington's swanker neighborhoods. Says Naranjo: "Unless you put it in their face...
After the Ravenswood Aluminum Co. locked out members of the USW from a mill in West Virginia and hired nonunion workers to replace them, the AFL-CIO traced the company's ownership to Marc Rich. He is a former commodities speculator who fled the U.S., pursued by a flock of indictments, and rules interests throughout Europe. For almost two years, at the U.S. federation's request, unions in 20 countries harassed and disrupted Rich's activities until, in mid-1992, he ended the West Virginia lockout...