Word: union
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) wants Harvard to boycott the company that manufactures the caps and gowns students wear at Commencement, but it isn't sure whom...
...committee structures directly involve only a fraction of the shop-floor work force. They challenge the hierarchical organization of daily production in only indirect ways. Such committees are potentially a useful adjunct to a union board room seat, but they don't create real shop-floor democracy...
...practice, these committees if formed, would probably be similar to those the UAW has formed with G.M. in certain manufacturing plants. In Quality of Working Life (QWL) programs, additional training, improvements in the work environment, and committee systems have formed the basis of a new atmosphere of union-management co-operation. At Tarrytown, New York and elsewhere the QWL programs have apparently turned hostile working environments into more productive, harmonious factories...
CHRYSLER NEEDS all the productivity it can get right now. A wise and pragmatic management might well turn to shop-floor democratization--together with joint committees, and union presence in the board room--to create the climate of labor co-operation and effort needed to put the company back on its feet...
Sources said yesterday that Saul L. Chafin, chief of the University police, has promised the Harvard Police Association--the union for University police--that if the jury finds O'Connor innocent, the University will rehire him and give him back...