Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The goal of the corporate campaign, Rogers says, "is to cause those institutions that are tied to J.P. Stevens--either through investments or in the form of corporate connections--to exert influence on the company to recognize the rights and dignity of workers and to sit down and bargain in...
Labor groups think Stevens must become the first domino to topple if they are to successfully organize the largely non-union South. Since 1963, Stevens workers have voted against unionization in 13 of 14 elections held in the company's plants. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined that the...
In leading the campaign against Stevens, Rogers views the corporation as something other than a traditional Wall Street monolith with unassailable domestic and international financial operations and ties. Rogers likes to think of Stevens simply as a Board of Directors, a group of "human personalities" that give the corporation its...
In a little more than two years, to the astonishment of the financial world, the corporate campaign has driven Stevens' chairman from the boards of Manufactures Hanover, Inc. and New York Life, forced the resignation of a second director from Man Hanny and compelled two outside directors to resign from...
Rogers launched his corporate campaign in 1977 armed with a fraction of the budget and administrative personnel assigned to the boycott. The campaign keyed first on the Stevens' annual shareholders meeting, bringing 4000 demonstrators to protest outside the meeting and crowding 600 pro-union shareholders into the corporation's New...