Word: nonunionism
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...goal of the rally was to get the administration to talk about the contracting out of work to nonunion companies," said Williams. "We've been trying to negotiate that point for over two years...
Labor experts say unions now have their best chance in years to score broader gains. Paula Voos, who teaches industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin, cites recent polls showing that up to 40% of nonunion workers say union representation would improve their lot. "It's not a majority, certainly, but it still represents millions of workers," Voos says. Dawn Kowalski, a machine operator at a Pilot Industries auto-parts plant in Dexter, Michigan, is one of them. Hoping to win higher wages and better conditions, she plans to vote to join the United Auto Workers at an in-plant...
...last week that it had chosen Ford as its lead target, negotiations on a new three-year contract between U.A.W. and the Big Three automakers began in earnest. The key issue is the labor-cost advantages enjoyed by Japanese companies with transplant factories in the U.S. These factories are nonunion, their employees are young and they have few retirees...
...compete in the world economy. They owe many of their tenuous gains to the weak dollar, which jacks up the price of foreign steel; that has helped reduce the imports' share of the U.S. steel market from a peak of 26% in 1984 to about 16% today. "The nonunion companies are world-class leaders," says John Tumazos, who follows the steel industry for the firm Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette. "The competitiveness of the large, traditional companies results primarily from the weak dollar...
...TELL WINDOWS CATERING CO. OF WASHINGTON THAT Bill Clinton's election spells the end of politics as usual. Windows, a nonunion firm, last month submitted the apparent winning bid to cater the Inaugural luncheon on Capitol Hill. But then, Windows says, a labor official accused the company of misrepresenting itself as a union firm. The JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE ON INAUGURAL CEREMONIES subsequently reopened the bidding and awarded the job to a union shop. John Chambers, executive director of the joint committee, denied that Windows had ever officially won the deal...