Word: nonunionism
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...immigrant flood has helped hold wages down in a broad range of low-level occupations, from assembling computer circuit boards to sewing clothes. The pay for California's unionized lemon harvesters, for example, has remained at $6 per hour since the early 1980s because of competition from nonunion crews, which include illegal aliens. Local 531 of hotel workers in Los Angeles was forced to accept a pay cut from $4.20 per hour to $3.60 per hour late last year...
...McCoy feud in the same region, around the West Virginia-Kentucky line. Now the conflict, involving some 1,500 members of the United Mine Workers, is evoking even uglier images. "It's almost like a civil war," said ex-Mayor Robert McCoy of Matewan, W. Va. Hayes West, a nonunion truck driver, was killed and another driver wounded when snipers opened fire on a convoy on Coeburn Mountain in Kentucky; three other drivers have been wounded in similar ambushes...
...term Republican Congressman and a one-term Senator from Tennessee until 1976, Brock was so conservative, the AFL-CIO says, that he voted with labor on only 14% of the issues that mattered most to it. Earlier, as an executive of his family's candy company, he supported its nonunion-shop policy. So when President Reagan selected Brock last week to replace Raymond Donovan as Secretary of Labor, why were union leaders pleased? Declared AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland: "He has earned our respect. We look forward to a new and constructive relationship with the Labor Department...
...links and tie-bar sets ($25) to porcelain eagles ($1,750), and $2.2 million from advertising on the televised portion of the Inaugural gala (ABC). But some cost-cutting efforts have backfired. Seeking 200 performers for public events, a committee consultant placed an ad in a trade publication for nonunion, "clean-cut, All-American types," to work for expenses but no wages. Several unions, including the Screen Actors Guild, which Reagan headed more than three decades ago, were outraged. Walker apologized to the unions for the ad, but decided to keep the nonpaid performers in the program. The American Federation...
...keeping those costs down is that Burr hires only "managers" (even a flight attendant is a "customer- service manager"), and all 4,000 full-time employees must move around in several different kinds of jobs. Burr occasionally takes his turn as a steward. Not only are the managers nonunion but each of them must buy at least 100 shares of People Express stock, on credit if necessary...