Word: nonunionism
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...first, Chavez's fledgling union seemed to have little chance of success. The growers had powerful political and financial allies in the state, and there was plenty of nonunion labor available to do the ill-paid, back-breaking vineyard work. But in 1968 Chavez applied what turned out to be a brilliant tactic: a nationwide boycott of table grapes. That move mustered wide support from urban liberals and succeeded in cutting the public demand for grapes-and thus the price the growers received-to the point where many producers suffered...
...rare move, the court reversed itself. Result: federal judges may now enjoin strikes that violate no-strike provisions if a union contract also provides for binding arbitration of disputes. At issue was a strike by the Retail Clerks union against a California supermarket, called after the store had allowed nonunion workers to arrange its shelves. A federal district judge, noting that the union contract called for binding arbitration, issued an order barring the strike. He was reversed by a federal appeals court, which relied on the 1962 decision. But the Supreme Court agreed with the district judge...
...backlog of $25 million. The company has progressed from rehabilitating old buildings to erecting large projects from the ground up. Some 2,500 black craftsmen are employed on Burnett's jobs; he insists that building unions supply him with black laborers, and if they cannot, he sometimes hires nonunion blacks...
...basement, it ranges from $16,125 to $26,300, not counting land. The following comparative figures for the same house were compiled by Milwaukee's American Appraisal Co. In most of the high-cost cities, builders use union labor; in nearly all the low-cost cities, they use nonunion labor...
...union does begin to win contracts with an increasing number of growers, a new difficulty could arise: How is the consumer to tell the difference between union and nonunion grapes? Boxes can be labeled easily, but not loose bunches of grapes in a market. The union claims that existing boycott machinery can be turned around to promote the produce of those who have signed; they could be marketed through the chain stores that have refused to handle the produce of struck growers. However, any such confusing procedure is bound to dilute the boycott's effectiveness...