Word: plants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instant garden, more's the pity, but one pays a price for it. "Within the past three years or so," observes Larry Shapira, a horticulturist and consultant at Merrifield Garden Center outside Washington, "people have started coming in who just don't want to wait for smaller plants to become big ones. They want to go to the garden center in the morning, pick up the plant, drive the thing home, plant it, and have a drink under it that evening...
...hall in Jay, Me., is thick with cigarette smoke, coffee cups and strikers. Some of the men and women are back from 6 a.m. picket duty at the nearby International Paper mill; others, despite the weather, will report for the afternoon. The union was locked out of one IP plant in Alabama 15 months ago and went on strike last June at three mills -- the one in Jay and two others in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- because of contract disputes. Despite the length of the strike, the members are hanging tough: only 5% of the 3,500 affected employees have returned...
...could use another victory to erase the memory of a highly publicized defeat. In 1985 and 1986, Rogers helped orchestrate what turned into a long and bitter walkout by meat-packers at a Hormel plant in Austin, Minn. That brought him into conflict with the Union of Food and Commercial Workers International, which came to disapprove of the walkout and such stratagems as dispatching pickets to Hormel plants that were not on strike. Hormel eventually outlasted the strikers, and 650 jobs were eliminated...
Rogers' current campaign could be equally futile. Unlike most unionized companies, IP negotiates on a plant-by-plant basis. At present, only four of the firm's 26 mills are affected, a fact that mitigates IP's sense of urgency about settling. Before the lockout and strike, workers at the four plants were more or less happy with business as usual; at an average wage of $13.55 an hour, and with considerable overtime, some mill hands were earning more than $40,000 a year. But at several mills the company insisted on eliminating "premium pay," the double wage that paperworkers...
...Even if I knew the world would end tomorrow, I would continue to plant my apple trees." That is the statement of faith traditionally attributed to Martin Luther. Some skeptic recently challenged the world of scholarship to demonstrate exactly where Luther had ever made such a declaration, and nobody could find an exact source. Perhaps, like so many such pieties, the idea really came from Goethe. Or perhaps Thoreau. It does not greatly matter, for the statement itself is one of abiding hope and abiding truth...