Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stockiness, kind eye and tempered assertiveness create an image more of a humbled, once-great football player than of a powerful and controversial leader. But labor organizer Ray Rogers happens to wield a new weapon that may give workers a power far more effective than the traditional boycott or strike...
...subsequent meetings in Greenville, S.C., re-emphasized the need for mass labor support if any type of effort--even one demanding as few organizers as the corporate campaign--was to succeed. Thirty-one years earlier, Stevens had also fled the unionizing North and the threat of a coordinated strike and headed to the non-unionized South. In 1977, though, the directors were running from angry shareholders armed with proxies. Rogers and other labor leaders believe labor had launched itself into a new era in which, as Rogers says, "the struggle would be brought from the doorstep of the oppressed...
Rogers is raising labor power to a new level, up from the streets, the factories and picket lines and into the safe seclusion of corporate meeting rooms. Unlike the boycott or strike, his corporate campaign does not demand titanic funding, deny the public a certain product, or force a laborer to stop work and fall back on union payments. Instead, it hits corporate directors personally, not just in terms of profits and production. Undoubtedly, Stevens directors who resigned their corporate posts felt the same pounding frustration and anger that Stevens workers feel in their attempts to secure fair employment benefits...
...were going to pull a strike if they hadn't given us this stand. I'd like to find out if we could get a lawyer and sue them," Godinho said...
...Douglas Fraser, the United Auto Workers chief. "A credit to to both parties," said a General Motors negotiator. Both were praising a rare peaceful settlement, arrived at in a final flurry of horse trading at GM's imposing stone headquarters in Detroit just 4½ hours before a strike deadline. For the first time in 15 years, the autoworkers had reached a tentative contract agreement without going on a national strike. The three-year pact was concluded with GM but sets the pattern for the industry and covers 780,000 workers...