Open book on salaries

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Weight: 118 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0745-4880
• DOI: 10.1002/mare.4080221012

✦ Synopsis

corporate campaign t o pressure Kmart t o change its attitude toward unions. Seven years ago, in 1992, Kmart workers in Chicago voted t o join the Teamsters, but they are still working without a contract. In Greensboro, North Carolina, Kmart warehouse workers voted to join UNITE in 1993. It was not until three years later, after a major community corporate campaign involving religious and other activists and charges that the employer discriminated against African American employees, that a contract was finally signed. In 1998, Kmart warehouse workers in Pennsylvania and Ohio voted t o join the United Auto Workers, but the company and union are still far apart at the bargaining table. These are among