YOUR BEST ADVERTISING MEDI IN THE LUCRATIVE BLACK MARKET CALL 376-049fi W : THE CHARLOTTE POST "i liariottes Fastest Growing Community Weekly" hlack .newspapers EKKECl IVELY REACH BY FAR. MORE HLACK CONSUMERS NLRB Upholds AJJ Decision: Holds Stevens Guilty Of "Bad Faith" Bargaining WASHINGTON! TU« KT-.*: nal Labor Relations Board has affirmed the decision of an -NLRB Administrative Law Judge holding the J .P. Stevens Company guilty of bad-faith bargaining in negotiations with its employees at its Roa noke Rapids, N.C. plants. The decision, handed down on Dec ember 21, 1977, by AIJ Ber nard Ries, held that the com pany violated the National Labor Relations Act by engag ing in "bad faith" bargaining and using the delays in the collective bargaining process at the Roanoke Rapids plants "to chill the ardor or employees" supporting the union at other Stevens plants. Γ, In affirming Judge Ries's decision, the Board found that the company had violated the act by "keeping the union in th the dark regarding informat ion necessary and relevant for the purposes of collective benefit in" and timing the announcement or implement ation of corporatewide benefit programs "to preclude any meaningful negotiations" con cerning the Roanoke Rapids workers. "Respondent's (Stevens) bargaining strategy thus con fronted the union with a 'Hobson's choice'-either accept or reject unilaterally predetermined modifications in benefit programs The rec ord in this case clearly demon strates that this tactic was a most effective means of und ermining the collective bar gaining process and denigrat ing the union's status as coll ective bargaining agent." Ruling that these violations ^go to the very heart of the ff. ■ ALLURING TREAUNDRA OSBORinc ...Independence High sophomore Treaundra Osborne Is Beauty Of Week . by Sherleen McKoy Poet Staff Writer Treaundra Osborne, a sophomore at Independence High School, is the Poet's beauty for this week. Her future aspiration is to matriculate at a nursing school to become an RN or to delve into the field of fashion^ merchandising Somewhat athletically-in clined, Treaundra plays voll «aball for her school. "I like MDeyball a lot," she said. "We had an ukay season-it was half and half. I'm very grateful to our coach, Mrs. Mary Artls, for her dedication to the team . " Treaundra also plays bas ketball sometimes for Mint HU1 and like· to Jog a lot. Listening to music, socializ ing with friends and reading a good poetry book are favorite pastimes for Treaundra. "I love poetry," she explained, "I don't know why-it's just the way it's written I guess." ' 8he also likes all kinds of who listens of a Family the LADY next dances Her favorite person is actress Cicely Tyson. "I like the way she plays her parts, Treaundra said. When asked whether she likes school, Treaundra released a reluctant "yes. It keeps me£usy," she stated Her most well-liked subjects are math and English. She dislikes biology and certain periods and subjects in hist ory. However, they have be gun to study the diverse relig ious of the world which have captured her interest! Treaundra is a member of the Red Cross Club at Inde pendence; she sings on the Gospel Choir of Red Branch Baptist Church in Mint Hill and is a member of Logan Chapel CME Church. She de scribes herself as a person wno learns to accept things as they come, likes to smile a lot ("but don't get me mad"), always willing to help others, respects other* without re gard to color and is very fond of old people. "I love old peo ple," she remarked. In reflecting on the most important lesson she has ever learned in her entire IS years, Treaundra remarked, "I can not love God without loving my brothers and slaters. " Christmas is a very, special time of the year for Treaun dra. "It ia a time to give thanks, to be with my family and to show them how much I appreciate them," she said On the lighter side, it means ' vacation away from sçhoot.'' The only daughter and the oldest of three children, Trea undra and her brothers live with their grandfather, Mr Authur Sylvester Osborne. Act and our national policy, we deem it necessary, in agreement with the (NLRB) General Counsel, to impose an additional remedy directed specifically at this conduct." Going further that Judge Ries's original order, the Board ruled: "We will require Respond ent to notify the union prompt ly of any decision to announce or institute systemwide changes in employee benefits; to produce upon request all information relevant thereto for purposes of collective bar gaining, prior to announce ment or implementation of such changes in benefits on a company wide basis; and to afford the union an opportun ity to negotiate regarding sim ilar or identical changes at the Roanoke Rapids plants The Board ruling was hailed by the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union as "a clear demonstration that the J.P. Stevens Company has rpnpatoHlv vinloftui tKû lo«ne nf (he land in its ruthless cam paign to prevent workers from joining our union and enjoying the benefits of collective bar gaining. It also emphasizes that as long as the company is guilty of such tactics, free and fair elections among Stevens' workers cannot be held, since as the Board has held, these tactics 'undermine the collect ive bargaining process and denigrate the union's status as collective bargaining agent." Judge Ries's ruling recom mended extending a Second Circuit Court of Appeals decis ion on granting across to the workers and to company bull etin boards and non-work areas to all Stevens workers throughout the United States, other than in the Carolines, which he held was covered by that decision. In affirming Ries's ruling, the Board has recommended that when its ruling becomes operable, the Carolines also be included, ·» thereby extending the scope ana tne duration ot me court s remedies. The union won a representa tion election among Stevens workers in 1974. Since then, according to Judge Ries's de cision, and now upheld by the Board, Stevens "bargained with the union in bad faith and without any intention of con cluding a collective bargain ing agreement" in violation of the National Labor Relations Act. "The record as a whole indicates that Stevens approached these negotiations with all the tractability and openmindedness of Sherman at the outskirts of Atlanta," Judge Ries said. The remedies recommend ed by Judge Ries included payment by Stevens of costs incurred by the union and the NLRB in the hearings and incurred by the union during the collective bargaining sess ions which led to the "bad faith" finding FROM ALL OF US TO EACH OF YOU BEST WISHES FOR A 1Wity And A $ Bill Johnson Bob Johnson Hank Alaksa Shirley Harvey Sharon Johnson Hoyle Martin Sr. Dannette Gaither Susan Ellsworth Sherleen McKoy Charlean Little Eugene Fharr Chase Vance Eileen Hanson Brenda Kennedy Joyce McDonald 'TIL·, Thanks for your generous support and consideration. Merry Christmas! Black Press Workshop To Focus On Circulation WASHINGTON (NNPA) - All aspects of newspaper cir culation building and advertis ing salesmanship will be the focus of the Annual Mid-Win ter Workshop of the National Newspaper Publishers Assoc iation -the Black Press of America-meeting in Mem ρ his, January 17-20. Announcement of the Work shop program plans was made this week by John H. Seng stacke, president of NNPA, and editor publisher of the Chicago Daily Defender. New Pittsburg Courier and eight other papers in his chain He pointed out that John L. Ρ roc ope, first vice presi dent of NNPA and publisher of the New York Amsterdam Newt, is the program chair- ' man aad is developing discus sion plans and other agenda activities for the Workshop Sengstarke said that Pro cope has succeeded in getting two specialist* to lead the circulation and advertising discussions They are: Daniel Orr, president of the Internat ional Circulation Managers Association and circulation director of the Boston Globe, and Arthur Segall, Sr., man ager of general advertising of two leading mid-South news papers- tue Memphis Comm ercial Appeal and the Press Scimitar. - These experts will fee joined by panel· of Black Pre·· publishers and advertising executives in discussing cir culation and advertising over a two-day period. Procope has submitted to the experts a list of Questions relating to the special problems of the Black Press so that they may speak more specifically to them. The Workshop will be held, in the beautiful new Hyatt Regency Memphis A tour of the city is scheduled for the first afternoon, said Seng stacke. It will cover the Lor raine Hotel where L)r Martin Luther King, Jr., was assasi nated, Beale Street where a statue of Blues King W.C. Handy stands, I^Moyne Coll ege ana ai «a «i^re Mrs Ida Β Wells Barnett's Free Speech and Headlight plant was humeri Ιο the ground by a mob in 1B92 because she pro tested Ihe lynching of four blacks Mitchell Praises Navy's Reimbursement Special To The Poet Congressman Parren J Mitchell