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...strikers, a minority of the 9,000 Farah employees who were scattered in nine plants in the Southwest, were easily replaced by the company from the large pool of poor, nonunion Mexican American workers in the region. In his decision, however. Judge Maloney ordered Farah to reinstate the strikers, along with the six employees whose dismissal for union activities had triggered the strike. The company, he ruled, must grant the union access to its plants to organize the workers. Finally, Farah was told to pay not only the union's legal costs but also those of the NLRB...
...refusal by skilled tradesmen to work overtime might tie up their plants, bargained a key clause into the contract. The clause permits management to meet the tradesmen's refusals to work by filling the gaps with unskilled workers and part-timers, or by jobbing the work out to nonunion shops. To the tradesmen, some of whom earn well over $20,000 a year, the threat of replacement by unskilled or nonunion workers was a challenge to their status and, in the long run, to their job security. "It hit us right where it hurts," said an angry electrician...
...First, most unions negotiating this year have been coming off big three-year contracts that until very recently kept members' pay rising faster than prices. Second, there have been corrections in wage disparities that a few years ago caused some unions to grumble that other unions-and even nonunion men-were outdistancing them in pay gains. Washington officials fear, however, that food-price inflation from now on will weigh more heavily in unionists' minds. Last week's news did nothing to dispel that fear. The Government reported that the consumer food-price index for July jumped...
...Ladies' Garment Workers' Union won a 20% hike over the next three years for its 60,000 New York area members. A principal beneficiary of New York's decline has been Miami, where spacious plants rent for half the going cost of New York lofts, and nonunion Cuban immigrant labor is available at rates 7% to 10% below those on Seventh Avenue. Miami dressmaking employment has risen from...
Just Us Top Dogs. Dunlop helped persuade Nixon to form the stabilization committee and then persuaded construction union leaders to cooperate. He knew that they were worried that the insatiable demands of militant local leaders were pricing unions out of the market, leading to increased use of nonorganized labor (nonunion labor accounts for about 30% of the construction work force). The committee's very existence gives national labor chiefs a justification for moderating pay demands. Says Dunlop: "We are using this mechanism to get done a great many things that responsible union leaders have known for years needed...