Word: nonunionized
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...community leaders. Martin Sullivan, recently arrived from Montreal, went into the East Los Angeles barrios to distill the Mexican-American way of life-and found the Chicanos strikingly similar in mood and plaint to their French-Canadian cousins in Quebec. Sandra Burton observed the importation of "green-card" nonunion workers from Mexico and covered the climax of a 100-mile march between El Centro and Calexico, in which, she reports, the heat hit 120° and blisters "were like merit badges." At the end, when Union Leader Cesar Chavez began to speak, she thought that she had obtained a perfect...
...Newspaper Guild and the Machinists' Union struck for modest pay raises last December, Hearst had 150 out-of-town strikebreakers on salary, waiting in local motels. His concern was not salaries but union resistance to automation. He had powerful local support from the beginning. Otis Chandler's nonunion and increasingly automated Los Angeles Times, a bit beset by federal antitrust action, feels more comfortable with a rival around. For a time, it helped Hearst print his strike-bound paper. Mayor Sam Yorty, a Democrat of sorts, put city hall on Hearst's side. "I think the unions...
...pending a court decision on the legality of their appointments. A three-man committee was designated to hear teachers' complaints. U.F.T. Leader Albert Shanker won reinstatement for 79 of his teachers who had been transferred out of the district or walked out of their jobs in sympathy; four nonunion teachers accused of hostility toward U.F.T. members were transferred out of the district. Administrator Rhody McCoy was suspended until he would promise to cooperate with Johnson. McCoy reluctantly did so, was reinstated...
...main source of friction was a rivalry over who should represent the city's teachers in contract negotiations: the local affiliate of the National Education Association or the growing Youngstown Federation of Teachers, an A.F.L.-C.I.O. unit. The school board consistently favored the N.E.A. group, which is nonunion...
...Ocean Hill's heavily Negro and Puerto Rican Junior High School 271, the controversial teachers were harassed by the nonunion staff. One acting principal, herself a Negro, claimed that she was confronted and threatened in her office by outside militants and later intimidated by Ocean Hill Committee Chairman the Rev. C. Herbert Oliver-a charge Oliver dismissed as "a vicious lie, vomited from the jaws of hell...