Word: nonunionized
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...wake of labor leaders' opposition to the President's action. Of a total of 1,114 people polled, 73% thought that the freeze was a good idea, while 16% thought it was not. Union members, in fact, were slightly more favorable than others. While 72% of nonunion households supported the action, 74% of the union members polled backed the President...
...union members agreed with them and 54% thought that they were wrong. The leaders had more support among union men than among union women, who have been doing the shopping in these years of inflation. Only 17% of the women agreed with their stand, while 83% did not. In nonunion households, 20% considered the labor leaders correct and 60% held that they were wrong...
...general public has a different view of union members than the members have of themselves. Asked if Meany and Woodcock spoke for the rank and file of labor in opposing the freeze, 48% of the nonunion respondents thought that they did. Only 42% of the union members considered them to be accurate spokesmen for labor's viewpoint. Union and nonunion people split once again on the question of whether or not union members agreed with the President. While 36% of the nonunion households queried thought that the labor union members whom they knew backed the President...
Trouble came fast when Van Peebles set out to make Sweetback from his own screenplay. Industry credit dried up with a reading of the script's first three paragraphs. Union wages priced camera crews beyond his budget. Van Peebles, however, was ready for a hassle. He used nonunion crews, throwing the unions off the scent by letting it be thought that he intended to do a quickie porno romp, not worth their while. The first takes reduced his net worth to $13, but Soul Brother Bill Cosby answered an S O S with a $50,000 loan...
...film was made by two seniors as their Vis Stud thesis. It's one of those quickies using nonunion actors which cost under a million-$10,000 to be exact, $6000 given by the Corporation to the admissions committee several years ago, and $4000 more kicked in by Dean of the Faculty John T. "Darryl" Dunlop. The actors are, in fact, real-life students supposedly participating in their real-life activities, though in certain scenes-such as a slow-motion sequence of joyous romping in the Radcliffe Quad overlaid with pseudo-classical music-they are, at their most real, life...