Word: nonunionism
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...utilities and steel companies will enable the operators to hold out until the union eventually knuckles under, a sentiment shared by the coal companies. The 165,000 striking union members, mostly in Appalachia, account for only half the nation's coal production. There are growing numbers of nonunion miners, largely in the West, and most will keep right on working...
...price will be high. In this case, the U.M.W. will pay no strike benefits, and strikers do not get unemployment compensation. They will make do on savings, food stamps and whatever income may be earned by nonunion spouses. Already 17 is going its independent way by opening negotiations with three coal companies. That may put pressure on the U.M.W.'s national leaders, but one thing is certain: no coal will be mined by District 17's members while a picket line is standing. That just is not done...
Hyperbole aside, the steelmakers' troubles are real and severe. Their profits in the first half dropped 48%, while earnings for all manufacturing industry rose 8%. At U.S. Steel Corp., a 52% plunge in first-half profits has prompted the company to ask 10,000 nonunion and management employees to give up a cost of living raise averaging $19 a month that was due in August. Chairman Edgar Speer also indicated that some operations would be suspended at the company's Youngstown, Ohio, mill, and that construction of a $4.5 billion integrated plant in Conneaut, Ohio, might be postponed...
...Just Nonunion. The strike, which has been dubbed "the Grunwick siege" by pro-Tory London papers, began as a relatively simple labor problem. Last August Mrs. Jayaben Desai, a tiny Indian immigrant from Tanzania, walked off her job as a film processor in protest against the low wages ($42.50 a week), poor working conditions and compulsory overtime imposed on the predominantly Asian work force by Grunwick's Anglo-Indian managing director George Ward. With six other employees, Mrs. Desai joined the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX), a moderate, nonmilitant, white-collar trade union...
...sense of urgency has prompted business lobbyists to use more aggressive tactics. On the common situs bill, explains Forrest Rettgers, executive vice president of the NAM, "we overlooked nothing." Rettgers even lobbied black Congressmen, whom business groups previously had ignored, telling them that minority contractors, who employ mainly nonunion workers, would be hurt by the bill's passage...