Word: nonunionism
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...million it borrowed in 1987 when it went private in a leveraged buyout and acquired the Trailways bus line. After the buyout, Greyhound cut wages to restore profits and found itself on a collision course with drivers, who struck last March. Greyhound has since hired more than 3,000 nonunion drivers and says its ridership has reached 75% of prestrike levels. The firm received court permission last week to keep its buses rolling...
...employees around the country walked off their jobs three weeks ago, the Dallas-based company began to hire 700 drivers as permanent replacements for strikers. Within seven days Greyhound reported that ridership on its buses was back to 38% of normal levels and rising. As the company trained additional nonunion substitutes, dispirited drivers and other striking workers watched their jobs begin to evaporate. Every day they walked the picket line, it seemed, fewer would have posts to return to. By the time Greyhound and its unions resumed talks last Saturday, management was holding most of the aces. With more than...
...conditions, but rather about getting rid of the union altogether." That may become even easier if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Curtin Matheson Scientific in its case against the National Labor Relations Board. The Houston company is seeking to establish that an employer can reasonably assume that nonunion replacement workers, hired during a strike, oppose union representation. If the court agrees, companies may begin to kick out the unions as soon as replacement workers arrive...
...intensified foreign competition have forced companies to bear down on costs. At the same time, declining union influence has lessened the fear of reprisals or sympathy strikes. Finally, Ronald Reagan's decision in 1981 to fire striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization and replace them with nonunion trainees sent a clear signal that striking workers should not look to the Government for sympathy or even tolerance. "Other employers, public and private, interpreted this as a declaration of open season on unions and went all-out to block, weaken or be rid of them," says Thomas Donahue, secretary...
...Eastern's pilots and flight attendants walked out in support of striking machinists last March, they helped force the airline into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Their hopes that the U.S. bankruptcy court would impose an acceptable settlement were dashed as the Chapter 11 proceedings dragged on and Eastern hired new nonunion workers to replace the strikers. Last week the pilots and flight attendants gave up. The machinists still pin their hopes on the court...