Word: tactically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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, and thus long after an organizing drive hay been strangled. As a result, Stevens can effectively ignore labor laws...
...boycott is a risky tactic. First, unlike the Farah pants or Gallo wine boycotts, Stevens makes no single product. Stevens goods are sold under a variety of brand labels--eight brand names of sheets, three of towels, and carpets, hosiery and linens under a mix of labels. Supporters of the boycott will have trouble making the consumer aware of what brands not to buy. In addition, only 34 per cent of Stevens's sales are in consumer products; the rest is in sales to the government and in unfinished textiles to other manufacturers. As a result, the boycott may focus...
...will probably try to persuade the public and its workers that the boycott is forcing them to layoff workers and thus is hurting, not helping, employees. The union insists the purpose of the boycott is to pressure the company to obey the law; it is necessary because no other tactic has succeeded. "It was the company that created the conditions of the boycott by making it impossible for us to get fair elections in the first place," says the union's secretary-treasurer...
...union, the boycott represents the only tactic left to organize the plants. If the general history of American labor is any guide, unionization of the plants is the only way workers will ever achieve better wages, improve safety measures, and health conditions, and secure decent pension plans. For the AFL-CIO, the campaign is the first step toward unionizing the South and improving the conditions for Southern workers. That, in turn, could curb the pattern of Northern "runaway shops" moving south to avoid union labor, and help the economic development of the North-east...
...weeks. Yet ERA has lost in that state twice before, and local politicians believe the measure cannot clear both the house and senate during the current session. Looking further ahead, ERAmerica, the group coordinating the ratification drive, hopes to defeat key opponents during the 1978 state-legislature elections-a tactic that could produce some last-minute ratifications early in 1979. Sympathetic groups like the National Education Association have announced they will not schedule conventions in states that have not passed the ERA. Proclaims NOW Founder Betty Friedan: "I say to the women of America, we gotta stop being so ladylike...