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...board. Thus the targets include Avon Products, Coca-Cola, Bank of Boston and the PNC Financial Corp. of Pittsburgh. In some cases, the leverage will be strong. At Rogers' urging, a district council of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is threatening to withdraw $15 million from a banking subsidiary of PNC. Reason: W. Craig McClelland, executive vice president of IP, sits on PNC's board. Such strong-arm tactics give hope to William Meserve, the president of the United Paperworkers' Local 14 in Jay. Meserve calls Rogers "the only effective tool we could bring...
...Bank of Boston and at shareholder meetings of other firms that share directors with IP. The protests are only a small part, says Rogers, of the "transformation of the strike force into a powerful economic force." The real punch, he points out, will come from boycotts and threats to withdraw union funds from banks; only such actions will turn executives against IP. "I'd much rather see rich businessmen fight it out in the boardroom," Rogers says. "You can't embarrass them. You have to make them deal with real economic or political pressure." The question is whether the pressure...
...symposium, which addressed controversies on Harvard's campus, Rondeau urged union supporters to write or call President Bok and ask the University to withdraw the charges of unfair labor practice that it has filed against the union. The University hopes to overturn the results of a May 17th election, in which support staff workers voted 1530-1486 in favor of HUCTW. Harvard claims that union organizers threatened and coerced staff on the day of the election...
...think a lot of people are willing to be asked to withdraw from Harvard for a year," she says, adding that most undergraduate activists here would never seriously risk arrest. "I don't think that's true of activists around the United States...
King Hussein, in talks Saturday with Shultz in Amman, insisted on an Israeli commitment to withdraw as a precondition for accepting the U.S. proposal for peace talks. Shultz said he had emphasized to Shamir "the need for King Hussein's side to feel there is something to negotiate about...