Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of the relationship between union stewards and company foremen has been a chief subject of dispute since the strike was called Feb. 21, after a shop steward was disciplined by the company for swearing at a foreman at GE's Lynn plant...
...flare of some sort had been lit, and its orange smoke filled the room, Everett said. There was glass on the floor that appeared to be from broken bottles, and a large potted plant had been "thrown against the wall," its soil and broken pot adding to the "mess on the floor," he said...
...space shuttle division from 1981 until 1983, says that he treated employees who were hallucinating on the job, collapsing from cocaine overdoses and using marijuana, PCP, heroin and numerous other drugs while they worked. Frankel estimates that 20% to 25% of the Rockwell workers at the Palmdale, Calif., plant, the final assembly point for the four space shuttles, were high on the job from drugs, alcohol or both. During the construction of the spacecraft, police raided Rockwell's shuttle assembly plant in Downey, Calif., several times after undercover agents bought cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and marijuana from employees. Nine workers were...
...companies are waging a more active--and clandestine--war against drugs. GM, for example, has used private undercover agents supervised by the police to make some 200 arrests at its plants within the past 18 months. In the sting operation at the Wentzville plant, the company was able to hire two young former narcotics agents unobtrusively when it added a second shift. Dressed in T shirts and jeans, they mingled easily with the assembly-line % workers. During a six-month period they bought everything from cocaine to LSD from the plant's alleged pushers. Says Dr. Robert Wiencek...
...Tarrant County, Texas, and San Diego County, Calif. And late last week Filipino bankers, lawyers and government officials charged that Marcos had received the better part of an $80 million payment in 1976 from Westinghouse Electric in connection with a lucrative contract to build the first Philippine nuclear power plant...