Word: white-collar
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Companies look to office automation to boost white-collar productivity...
Measuring the efficiency of office employees is difficult, and trickier by far than merely monitoring the output of a plant making automobiles, refrigerators or shoes. In the world of the white-collar worker, measurements that focus on such things as simply increased output in the office are just not relevant. Turning out more reports that do not get read may decrease rather than increase office productivity. On the other hand, by entering just about any American business office it is easy to see that hours are being poorly used or frittered away...
Antiunion sentiment seems to be everywhere, and not just among white-collar suburbanites. A symptom of this was the public support President Reagan got when he fired 11,500 air-traffic controllers who struck illegally in August. Says Victor Gotbaum, head of New York City's largest (109,000 members) public employee union and one of organized labor's most powerful voices: "Not even Eisenhower or Richard Nixon did that...
...Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO has half a dozen unions involved in an organizing campaign in Tupelo, Miss., and it is about to start a drive in the Baltimore-Washington area aimed specifically at women employees. White-collar workers are a prime target for organizing...
Says Karen Nussbaum, 31, a union official in Cleveland: "Organizing white-collar workers is now make or break for the trade-union movement." Inroads are being made by some unions, among white-and gray-collar workers in health care, teaching and government, which tend to offset the blue-collar losses...