Word: nonunionism
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Reagan leads Mondale in all regions of the country, at all age levels, among both women and men, Roman Catholics and Protestants, union and nonunion members and at all income levels except the very lowest. Indeed, Mondale has a clear edge in only two somewhat overlapping groups: blacks (who support him 70% to 12% over Reagan) and people earning $10,000 or less (who favor him 45% to 36%). Even among Democrats, Mondale commands a less than overwhelming majority (54%). Reagan, however, is the choice of 88% of Republicans and a full 63% of the critical independents...
...prior years, Canadian autoworkers have usually gone along with the U.S. contracts. This time the goals of the two countries' workers are very different. U.S. employees, concerned about production's shifting to nonunion plants overseas, gave up their customary wage demands in exchange for job-security guarantees. But no Canadian auto plants have been closed, and no Canadian GM workers are on layoff. Robert White, the aggressive head of the Canadian U.A.W., has let it be known that his members do not want the profit sharing or lump-sum payments that are part of the just approved...
...behemoths like United ($5.4 billion), People Express is already the twelfth-largest U.S. carrier. Its secret: low costs that enable it to undersell the competition, along with unusually strong employee morale. The average annual salary for People Express's 14,000 full-time employees, who are all nonunion, is just over $20,000 a year, less than half the norm at larger airlines. But every employee is a stockholder and works hard. A People Express customer-service manager is a Jack-(or Jill) of-all-trades whose duties include serving as check-in clerk and flight attendant, plus stints...
...unions remain Thatcher's greatest affliction. The dock strike began after a nonunion worker was employed to move iron ore off the docks at Immingham, in eastern England. Though the procedure was routine, the Transport and General Workers' Union called a walkout. Union leaders pressed port employers to agree that nonunion help would never be used again, but the demand was rejected. Many dockers also suspected that the Thatcher government intended to seek a change in a 1947 law that effectively guarantees them jobs for life. The Prime Minister insisted that that was not the case...
...airline industry went through some of its most turbulent times in 1983. Spawned by the beginning of deregulation in 1978, cut-rate, nonunion carriers like People Express triggered fare wars and shot down the profits of the nine major airlines, which lost $71.8 million in the first nine months of the year. Frank Lorenzo, who was one of the pioneers of discount air travel as head of Texas International and New York Air, came up with a controversial approach to cost cutting after taking over unionized, money-losing Continental Airlines. In September he grounded all domestic flights, filed for reorganization...