Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minnesotans sometimes point to themselves as the reason for the state's success. "You just don't have people barking at you when you're walking down the street or sitting in a restaurant," says Jim Johnson, a former Princeton instructor and Muskie campaign worker who recently moved back home. At the Minneapolis Club, where corporation executives and political leaders gather, the waitresses are so friendly and informal that a guest almost expects one to sit down and share the meal she has just served...
...workers, members of Local 262 of the United Electrical Workers, want their wages increased from $2.00 to $2.50 per hour, one employee said yesterday. "What we want is a decent and liveable wage," Mary Gallaway, a worker at the theater, explained yesterday...
...demands that the new equipment recently installed and the highly dangerous chemicals involved warrant at least two men on the post during the same shift. One worker narrowly escaped death from exposure to cholorine, flourine and other toxic gases in the chemical chamber last month...
...come these union-hating growers welcome Teamster advances rather than negotiate with a worker-controlled union? Growers, not surprisingly, prefer to deal with bosses who have nothing in common with the men and women who spend their lives bent over in the fields (When you read the terms of the contract this unholy alliance produced, you'll see just how well the Growers and Teamsters get along -- and why it only took them all of two days to write that contract...
...boycott is their recurring nightmare. If the grocers find their customers turning away, the Delano and Fresno growers won't be so fast to conspire with the Teamsters when their UFW contracts expire. To be stuck with a worthless crop is a fate even worse then negotiating with a worker-controlled union...