Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Coles: "The ultimate reality is the reality of class. Having and not having is the real issue. To talk only in terms of racism is to miss the point. Lower-income whites and blacks are both competing for a very limited piece of pie." Illustrating that point, Social Worker Jerry Carey of South Boston observes: "I know that there's no way that my sons will get to Harvard, even if they have good grades, because the admissions committee will throw the Irish out and pick the blacks. That's crazy. It's also depressing as hell...
Even last week Chavez charged irregularities: "Right now 20% to 30% of the workers are not voting because of fear, intimidation and threats." Apparently some stiff-arming was going on. "My foreman said if we sign with Chavez, goodbye job," worried one worker in Delano. A new five-member State Agricultural Labor Relations Board -which Teamsters and growers argue is heavily biased in favor of Chavez -will have its hands full sorting out charges of election fraud as balloting continues over the next unquiet months...
...serious problem for any government trying to restrain inflation, and there are times when wage-price restraint must be enforced. But Galbraith-style permanent controls tend in the long run to suffocate economic life by distorting market forces, discouraging business investment and initiative, and creating shortages. They also breed worker resentment over lost wage boosts that translates into more social and political unrest than a popularly elected government can afford. On the one hand, Galbraith indicts government for unfailing economic mismanagement; on the other hand, he trusts government to save the day with wage-price controls. He thus seems...
...from ordering the seizures--as the American press unanimously reported--the PCP actually opposed them, knowing that they could serve as a pretext for rightist agitation against the Goncalves cabinet. The take-overs were carried out not by Communists or Socialists, but by workers supporting the "extreme left" and a policy of worker's control. Nor did the PCP prevent Republica and Renascenza from being returned to their "legal" owners--this decision was made by General Carvalho, an independent leftist then heading the Lisbon military garrison...
...Straw was transferred from Darlaston. The effort to centralize management control was abandoned for the more peaceful if ultimately unworkable status quo. Most important, the strike forcibly impressed the Owens with the limits of their power. Says David Owen: "We realized that paternalism was out, that the old gaffer-worker approach had become blurred. The old demarcations of upstairs/downstairs were out the window and well into the past. Coping with that change is still the biggest thing in front...