Word: nonunionism
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...products, which was only partially successful. What is more, no one can put a price tag on the bitterness that was engendered among union members during the early years of the struggle. Kohler managed to keep open for all but the first two months of the strike by hiring nonunion labor. The lure of the paycheck persuaded many men to quit the U.A.W. and go back to work. In dozens of U.A.W. homes in Sheboygan, one man returned to Kohler-and found himself the enemy of his father and brother...
...policy: the number of coal miners at work in the U.S. has been more than halved (to 142,400) in the past ten years. And as displaced miners grow more and more desperate for jobs, they are increasingly willing to take work wherever they can find it - including nonunion mines. Last year one-third of the coal mined in the U.S. "captive" (excluding 80 millions tons from the "captive" mines owned by steel compa nies) was nonunion, the highest percent age since the 19305. when the U.M.W...
...organizing. Price cutting by the low-paying nonunion mines has become so acute that last week, in the heart of East Kentucky's depressed coal fields, a bitter battle was raging between the U.M.W...
...Test of Quality. Despite such paternalism, Hershey has had its full quota of labor trouble. A sitdown strike in 1937 set off a head-cracking battle between union and nonunion employees; in another bitter strike in 1953, the union was defeated in its demand for a closed shop. But since then, says the local agent of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Bakery and Confectionery Workers, "our relationship has been progressively better...
Wages & Rockets. Meanwhile, the South's bait of low wages, nonunion shops, and tax relief for new plants has paid off handsomely in new jobs. In the lead is Florida, which has rocketed ahead 95%-fueled by Cape Canaveral's missiles, by chemicals, and by carloads of tourists. After Florida, the heaviest percentage growth is in the nation's southwest quadrant. Texas with its petrochemicals, military bases and white-collar industries, California with its missiles and electronics plants, and Florida now account for one out of every six nonfarm jobs. Five Rocky Mountain states (Arizona, New Mexico...