Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TTHREE MONTHS AGO, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union organized a nationwide boycott of products manufactured by the J.P. Stevens Company. The North Carolina-based textile firm, which for years has been fighting unionization efforts, is infamous for its poor treatment of its workers. Although it is the second...
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But Stevens is an exceptionally tough nut to crack, even by Southern standards. The NLRB has cited the company 15 times since 1965 for violations of federal labor laws. Stevens has been forced to offer jobs back to 125 dismissed workers and give them and other employees $1.3 million in...
No Softening. Stevens officials rarely talk to the press, but this week they will send stockholders a booklet defending their labor policies. Among other things, it accuses the union of employing violence in some organizing campaigns, claims that Stevens has a good record in hiring and promoting blacks and other...
At last week's annual meeting. Chairman Finley admitted that Stevens "has made mistakes of judgment." But officials show no signs of softening: the leaflet to stockholders asserts that union boycotters are "proving that they will readily sacrifice the interests of the employees ... to increase their own power." On...