Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...management espoused by Frederick Taylor, is no longer as applicable as it used to be. Workers are not willing to accept the authoritarianism of the workplace as was true a generation or two ago. They're much better educated by at least four years of education coming into the plant. Times and circumstances have changed also in the sense that the educational process challenges authority. I think that's fine; that's how it should...
...course it has its impact on plant operations...
...addition to that, management must certainly come to the realization that they don't own all of the brains in the world in deciding how a plant should be operated. I distinguish between participation in decision-making by the workers in managing the enterprise and managing the job. We're a long way in this country from workers participating in managing the enterprise per se, but I think we're getting much closer to the other aspect of it--managing...
Advent executives made the announcement late last week as the workers left the plant on their last day. The company is moving to Portsmouth. N.H., where it plans to hire primarily local workers...
...said that current plans include a suit with the National Labor Relations Board--charging that Advent left because of union activity, a picket campaign at Advent's new Portsmouth facility, and an attempt to convince workers at the new plant to unionize...