Word: nonunionism
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...president Douglas Fraser: "There's a fundamental truth -- the workers can't survive unless GM survives." And Stephen Yokich, head of the union's GM department, says he wants to help the company become more productive. But Yokich adamantly opposes GM plans to increase its purchase of materials from nonunion firms...
Bush has been known to speak out on the same day for both union and nonunion workers, for owls and loggers, for the environment and the industries that threaten it. When the self-proclaimed Education President needed to unveil a new education policy while addressing students at an Allentown, Pa., high school last week, he borrowed one -- from Clinton. Campaigning in Philadelphia for next week's Pennsylvania primary, Clinton blasted Bush for appropriating a guaranteed-college-loan plan "that has been at the core of my presidential campaign since the day I announced." The Governor quipped, "Now, they...
Beyond that, the way many states market their availability raises discomfiting questions. Too often the fat, glossy brochures of Kentucky pastures, Minnesota lakes, South Dakota prairies, Houston skylines and Indiana sunsets convey not who Americans are but what foreign investors want to see -- mainly people who are white, rural, nonunion, eager to work hard and unlikely ever to make any trouble. Sometimes the pitch seems meek and submissive. Listen, for example, to Mike Doyle, international development director of the State of Iowa: "Iowa has a lot in common with Japan. We like to promote the homogeneous relationships within Iowa...
...paper's 2,700 employees. After a supervisor ordered a worker with a medical disability to stand up on the job last month, a group of union drivers walked out of the plant, providing an opportunity for management to replace them. The News, which last year began training nonunion replacement workers at sites in Florida and New Jersey, rushed a busload of substitute drivers to the scene. The next day the paper declared that 60 replaced drivers had lost their jobs. As word of the dismissals spread, the unions launched a general strike that seemed to play into management...
...corridor so popular? One attribute is its character: rural and mostly nonunion. The Japanese are eager to hire young former farmworkers who appreciate the relatively high-paying auto jobs. (Black organizations have accused the Japanese of putting their plants in rural areas to avoid hiring minority workers.) In addition, many states were eager to offer tax and infrastructure incentives to attract new industry to the region, which suffered heavily during the 1981-82 recession. Today it hums with the sound of new cars starting...