Word: nonunionism
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...some cases, the interior brick linings have contracted and furnace roofs have fallen in. Steelmen waited anxiously for signs of other damage as the heat built up to 3,000°. What may hold repairs to a minimum is the fact that U.S. Steel, Inland and others kept nonunion supervisory staffs in the mills to keep heat in the furnaces and do some of the basic repair work as the damage occurred. The industry will not know for sure until the furnaces start operating this week. Says one steelman: "We've never gone through a strike this long. When...
...Hoffa's own Detroit bailiwick, Teamster Business Agent Zigmont Snyder owned a nonunion car-wash that paid workers as little as $1 a day. Many a Hoffa crony has collected payoffs from employers for "sweetheart" contracts. Teamster Officer Gerald Connelly negotiated Teamster sweetheart contracts in Minneapolis, including one that lowered wages from $1.32 an hour to $1, another that cut workers back from $65 a week...
...Steel that eliminated the sprawling semi-autonomous subsidiaries, turned them into divisions of one central corporation that took responsibility for both policy and production. He pushed hard for a standard cost system throughout the company. He expanded its savings plan, whereby the company matches every dollar saved by its nonunion employees (the union turned down the plan) with 50? of its own, and he broadened the incentive program, which now covers 75% of all employees either through cash awards for production ideas or through stock options. Blough, who himself picked up most of his 19,302 shares of U.S. Steel...
...tinker." When Jack Knight bought the Miami Herald in 1937, Tinker Jim went down and hammered it into shape. A relentless foe of back-room featherbedding, Jim took on a strike by the powerful International Typographical Union in 1948, kept the paper on the street, set up a nonunion shop, won the battle hands down. (The I.T.U. considers the strike still in effect to this day.) All told, Jim performed so well that Jack put him in overall charge as Miami general manager in 1951. Four years later, Jim Knight took over as publisher of a new Knight property...
...days lost in Canada last year, the ruling Social Credit party introduced a bill that would make unions legal entities subject to civil suits for damages resulting from strikes. The proposed law would also ban sympathy picket lines, blacklisting of companies, boycotts of goods turned out by nonunion labor...