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...committee, comprised mostly of Harvard students, has accused Bruce A. Gimbel, who controls 57 Gimbels and Saks Fifth Avenue stores throughout the country, of refusing to establish an on-the-job training program for minority workers on his construction sites. NECBGS also contends that Gimbel has ignored proposals that his corporation help preserve the environment...
Congressional concern for consumer protection also led to a far-reaching Occupational Health and Safety Act. The law established federal supervision over working conditions, something hitherto left largely to state regulation (except for coal mines). The law aims to reduce the shocking annual toll of on-the-job accidents: 14,500 workers killed and 2,200,000 injured. As organized labor wanted, the act gives the Secretary of Labor the power to fix safety standards for all factories, farms and construction projects involved in interstate commerce. As businessmen urged, the act leaves enforcement to a three-member commission...
...feel that people who go into corporate law get good on-the-job training, because the corporations let them just sit and learn about what's happening for a couple of years," Penn said, "but lawyers who go into public service work have no actual experience, and have to experiment at the expense of their clients...
Often lacking the education to seek better jobs or the money to flee to suburbia, blue collar workers live with nagging fears of muggings, of illness or layoffs at work, and of automation. According to a recent survey by the University of Michigan, one-half of all industrial workers worry continually about their job security, and one-quarter are concerned about their safety; 14,000 were killed in on-the-job accidents last year, more than the number of U.S. servicemen who died in Viet Nam in 1969. Fully 28% have no medical coverage, 38% no life insurance...
Harvard has been trying for several years to improve its minority hiring program. One of the plans it set up with this end in mind was the so-called "painters helper" program. Under this system Harvard hired blacks as painters helpers in order to give them on-the-job training to becomepainters. Painters' helpers received a lower wage than painters...