Report Card
Pollak, Roger
REPORT CARD Roger Pollak Economic War HOW TO WIN STRIKES by Teamsters Local No. 115 2833 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19149. Free. A failed strike can demoralize or even destroy a union; a...
...In the United States, forest damage, though less visible, is evident in the Appalachians, the Ohio Valley, and the Sierra Nevada of California...
...Will the judiciary, police, press, and politicians support the company or side with the workers...
...The most disturbing of air pollution's effects on forests is that growth and productivity can be declining in trees that show no visible symptoms at all," Postel says...
...Forest Slayer AIR POLLUTION, ACID RAIN, AND THE FUTURE OF FORESTS by Sandra Postel Worldwatch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036...
...Could it shut down and relocate...
...Industry can afford stronger limits, Postel says...
...Few would argue that Japan's high pollution control costs have seriously undermined its competitiveness in global markets," she says...
...Postel's report is clearly written and1 well-documented—more sobering evidence that acid rain poses a serious environmental threat...
...The material is designed for local union leadership, and provides hard-headed suggestions about how to deal with strikebreakers, company goons, and dissidents within the ranks...
...When we adopt a Federal budget, we choose whether to close gaps between us or to open them," argues this latest report from the Rural Coalition...
...Some day the Reagan Administration will be nothing more than a bad memory, and it will be time to try to make the Federal Government our friend," they say, as it was during the New Deal...
...Acid ram threatens the world's forests as well as its lakes and game fish, this World-watch paper reports...
...The second part of the manual details tactics for the picket line, the media, legal maneuvering, and other key strike activities...
...Most Japanese industries have accommodated the higher energy costs by using energy more efficiently...
...We are one nation, but divisible...
...In demonstrating the political importance of fiscal decisions, however, they go a bit overboard in portraying the possibilities of an actively progressive government in the future...
...But the Federal Government, even in the best of times, is torn between the interests of business and those of working people, and any popular gains come only through organized activism...
...Yet their purpose is a good one: to make the impenetrable budget debate come alive for average Americans...
...It provides a laundry list of questions and concerns to be considered before deciding to strike...
...How to Win Strikes dishes out the material in stark, concentrated form, which may overwhelm readers...
...Facing an unfriendly National Labor Relations Board, an unsympathetic Supreme Court, and an aggressively hostile business community, workers and their unions have found victory ever more elusive...
...In neighboring Czechoslovakia, 40,000 hectares of forest in the Erz Mountains reportedly have died, and fir trees are dead or dying on almost 180,000 hectares near Krakow, Poland...
...The strike should not be undertaken lightly, for the strike is the ultimate economic weapon—and it can backfire," says this "how-to" guide from Teamsters Local No...
...Since 1981, the budget has been opening the gaps, and Bitter Years gives a program-by-program accounting of this process...
...The breaking of the air traffic controllers' union and the blunting of the Greyhound walkout have tarnished the power of the strike in workers' eyes...
...If there is a problem, it is with the guide's format...
...To encourage the image of government as "friend" is a political strategy that is bound to breed popular complacency in the long run...
...a victory energizes the rank and file and builds union solidarity...
...Friend or Foe...
...Japan, for instance, has stringent antipollution laws that contribute 25 per cent of the cost of coal-generated power...
...BITTER YEARS:A SPECIAL REPORT ON MORE THAN THIRTY KEY FEDERAL PROGRAMS by the Staff of the Rural Coalition Rural Coalition, 1000 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007...
...More examples of unions' experiences would make this publication more useful...
...How mobile is the company...
...The authors have tried to keep the material interesting, but it is hopelessly dry...
...Waldsterben—literally forest death—is now a household word in West Germany, where up to 34 per cent of the forests are damaged or dying...
...As chronic stress increases, ecological theory predicts a staged decline that in extreme cases could* end in complete ecosystem collapse...
...What kind of financial support do the strikers have...
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...Could it find scabs...
...You can trust a "friend," but you must always keep an eagle eye on the government...
Vol. 48 • June 1984 • No. 6
