Word: white-collar
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...contract negotiation. A midwinter miners' strike remains a possibility. Privately, both union leaders and employers are predicting that the next round of settlements will fall in the 15% to 17% range-far higher than the 10% sought by Callaghan and Healey. Observed Clive Jenkins, general secretary of the white-collar Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs: "I think it's going to be a winter of deep discontent...
...never got the inflated title he might have expected ?senior or executive vice president?and he was not on the limousine list. Says a friend: "Freddie's a blue-collar worker ?he actually reads scripts and watches shows?and he doesn't do things in the white-collar...
...wages ($42.50 a week), poor working conditions and compulsory overtime imposed on the predominantly Asian work force by Grunwick's Anglo-Indian managing director George Ward. With six other employees, Mrs. Desai joined the Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff (APEX), a moderate, nonmilitant, white-collar trade union. In the next few days, more than 100 Grunwick employees joined APEX. Ward, who describes himself as "not antiunion, just nonunion," fired all the workers affiliated with APEX and refused to meet with the union's organizers...
...fact, not many blue-collar workers or their families take part in aerobic sports. Not all motorcyclists are blue collar, but almost all bicyclists and runners are white collar. In snow country, the line between white-collar crosscountry skiers and blue-collar snowmobilers sparks with animosity, and is seldom crossed. Factory workers are nearly as sedentary as bank presidents now, but clearly the conviction persists from the arduous old days that sweating is what privileged toffs...
...clear. The Los Angeles delegates voted to authorize union leaders to call a special convention within six months to consider the matter, but many members fear that reaffiliation would strip the U.A.W. of too much autonomy. Though contract bargaining time is two years off, Fraser has to start persuading white-collar workers that their needs will be well represented. Union organizing has been going poorly at plants relocated in conservative Sunbelt states, and even in the North, younger workers are losing interest in union activities...