Word: union
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newsgathering operation for a reason. Reporters are free to investigate stories, even if that scares off a substantial ad account. And conversely, advertisements are often run even though they contradict our editorial stance; for example, despite more than a decade of editorials in favor of Harvard's support staff union organizing, we have continued to publish the administration's ads in opposition to this drive...
...reason we have the luxury of even debating pulling a few thousand dollar ad account is because we can afford to keep running the presses without it. The Crimson is financially secure because of its ad base and graduate donors--comprised of the very groups that boast the very union-busting and investment practices we editorialize against. Pulling the ad is tantamount to giving with one hand, while taking with the other...
...stalled. Lorenzo can draw on the assets of Continental Airlines and Texas Air to keep up the fight, but you can be sure that every $29 you give to Lorenzo goes straight into the unionbusting side. Every passenger must ask him or herself, in the words of the famous union song, "Which side...
Lorenzo broke the Continental Airlines unions during a 1983 strike. Continental machinists now make a maxiumum of $16 per hour, $2.50 per hour less than machinists in the rest of the industry. Some carriers pay their top machinists more than $19 per hour. Lorenzo wants to run a non-union airline and reap windfall profits for himself and Texas Air. The man is a greedy slime...
Current capitalist philosophy says that one man's greed will benefit the masses. Is Frank Lorenzo fighting our battle, the battle of airline passengers, against recalcitrant and over-paid union members...