Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The huge, red-brick buildings which housed those old Lowell and Lawrence factories still stand. Some are now museums; the factories are no longer operating. J.P. Stevens has closed down 21 such plants in the Northeast within the past 25 years. Stevens' plants, and those of other textile firms, are...
Kathy Pease, 18 years old, was running a tufting machine at a textile factory on her first day on the job. She had received no instructions about how to run the machine. After two hours of operation, the machine chopped off two of her fingers. Incidents like these were common...
J. P. Stevens is the second largest textile manufacturer in the country. It employs 44,000 people in 85 plants, 63 of which are located in North and South Carolina. Wage levels there are about $1.50 per hour lower than the national manufacturing average. Wages in the South are generally...
In August 1974, in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, Stevens' workers in seven plants voted to be represented by the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). Stevens kept fighting, however: it stalled at the bargaining table, refusing to negotiate in good faith. The union never got a contract. The company was...
The union won an election at the company's Statesboro, Georgia plant, in spite of what the NLRB found to be a series of illegal actions by Stevens during the organizing drive. The NLRB ordered the company to bargain; rather than do so, the company shut down the plant and...