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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...
The discharge of workers who sympathize with the TWUA is Stevens most frequent tactic. Stevens has been found guilty of illegally discharging 289 workers in 15 cases, and was forced to rehire tham with backpay totalling $1.3 million. However, legal penalties come only after two to four years of litigation...
In 1973, a federal district court found Stevens officials guilty of wiretapping a phone used by union organizers. In 1975, a North Carolina tax official found the company had not reported $75 million of taxable income in 22 plants since 1969. A secret agreement was then reportedly discovered proving that...