Word: nonunionism
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...Oklahoma-based Kerr-McGee Coal Corp. is clearing a 3,000-acre site on both sides of Highway 34, barely a mile east of Galatia, for a new deep-shaft mine. The company plans to invest $185 million in the venture, which will employ up to 700 miners-all nonunion. Many towns would greet such an investment with enthusiasm. Galatia...
Unemployment in the area is running higher than 20%, other local mines are laying off workers, and nonunion mines often pay better than their unionized counterparts, if only to discourage organizing attempts. So there may be some Galatians to whom the Kerr-McGee project seems like a good idea. But they know enough to keep quiet. Storekeepers say they have been threatened with arson if they do business with the newcomer. Many citizens are chary of talking with strangers. A strapping young man emerging from Ragsdale's Laundromat says that, although he needs a job, he turned down...
...level the site for shaft sinking. At night, the construction equipment is drawn up in a cluster under floodlights, covered-wagon style, for protection against sabotage. Admits Randolph: "We expected some resistance in Galatia, but its intensity at this early stage surprised us. Still, our policy remains to encourage nonunion operation-by persuasion, not coercion. It worked well for us in Wyoming...
...lanes are now being monitored by some 10,000 controllers, about 7,200 fewer than before the strike: 5,700 of them are PATCO members who refused to walk out or nonunion controllers; 3,000 supervisors; 850 military draftees; and 450 new employees. The FAA has nearly 900 students enrolled at its academy in Oklaloma City, which has gone on double shifts for the 17-to 20-week courses and is planning to increase its training capacity still further. Even at that, it will be perhaps three years before the controller system is fully restaffed. It is unlikely that...
...which has lost $31.2 million since 1979-a third of it this year. Said Don Salvucci, chief negotiator for the pressmen's union, it was a question of "letting the ship sink or putting some people in a lifeboat." To keep the Bulletin afloat, 113 union and 73 nonunion jobs were eliminated. The 1,900 full-time employees remaining on staff are making various sacrifices, depending upon their position. Pressmen, for the most part, will no longer receive bonus pay for overtime hours. Paper handlers and composing-room workers have accepted a 10% cut in salary...