Word: stefani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mullins said yesterday he had reduced the suspension because Joseph Stefani, the business agent of the union had convinced him to take into account Holcombe's "newness as a shop steward...
...during the depression the union fell apart; nobody but Stefani paid dues and management kept cutting wages. He left Local 186 for a few years to join Local 34, but in 1937 he decided to revitalize 186. He called a meeting: nobody came. He called a second meeting and eight people showed up, a third to which 25 people came, and so on. At one point in the drive Local 186 had 15 cents in its treasury. The local got its charter and Stefani took over as business agent on February 11, 1937, but kept working at the Copley until...
...Lately Stefani and his wife have taken to buying Princess Ortega heavy pan sets before union meetings, to use them as door prizes to entice people to come. If 50 people show up for a meeting, one of them gets the Princess Ortega; if less people come Stefani keeps it until the next meeting...
...Stefani likes to show the latest Princess Ortega heavy pan set to visitors, along with all the old photographs of union meetings, to show them what things have come to. The pans are new, shiny; they stand out against the heavy, scuffed atmosphere of the Local 186 office...
...Look," Stefani says. "Look what we bring to entice them to come to the meeting to get educated. Sure the meetings are dull. But hell, it's business...