Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major clothing manufacturers based in the Southwest should follow Farah's lead and give all their laborers-- Chicano, Indian, black and white--the right to unionize freely. This especially applies to those firms that were lucky enough to have escaped the Amalgamated boycott and have prospered, perhaps unfairly, at Farah's expense. Unionization will prevent large companies from moving from one region of the country to another in order to exploit cheap labor in runaway shops...
...government has responded to the shellings by rushing a 1,400-man task force, backed by 25 armored personnel carriers, to the area southwest of the capital where they suspect the insurgents have stationed their artillery. The task force failed to find the howitzers. Military observers believe that the insurgents are merely lying low, waiting for the government forces to withdraw before resuming the attacks. Said a Western military expert: "Neither side is strong enough to win, or weak enough to lose." A sure loser, however, will be once graceful and tranquil Phnom-Penh. With seven months remaining...
...strikers, a minority of the 9,000 Farah employees who were scattered in nine plants in the Southwest, were easily replaced by the company from the large pool of poor, nonunion Mexican American workers in the region. In his decision, however. Judge Maloney ordered Farah to reinstate the strikers, along with the six employees whose dismissal for union activities had triggered the strike. The company, he ruled, must grant the union access to its plants to organize the workers. Finally, Farah was told to pay not only the union's legal costs but also those of the NLRB...
...beer and skittles at Coors. Mexican-American groups in the Southwest have mounted a boycott of the company's products because of alleged discriminatory hiring practices. The company denies the charge, and has not suffered noticeably from the boycott. The Federal Trade Commission has accused Coors of fixing prices and forbidding its distributors to carry any other brand of draft-style beer...
...curriculum; for students who do not understand English are effectively foreclosed from any meaningful education." The ruling, based on federal regulations rather than the Constitution, will also cover the more widespread problem of students who speak only Spanish. They constitute a sizable part of school systems in the Southwest, California, Miami and New York City. Thus any school receiving federal funds will now have to provide groups of non-English-speaking pupils with everything it gives others-but in a way that enables them to understand what they are being taught...