Political Quotes

“I have met with a number of employees in the context of our hearing and in private meetings who have told me the actual stories and experiences of those who are participating in plants where they go ahead, despite the law, and sit down and talk with their bosses, risking prosecution by the National Labor Relations Board. I have met with employees and management from some Virginia companies which have had great success with the team concept. The AMP Corp. which makes electrical connectors used around the world has a plant in Roanoke, VA, is one such example. Employees and management established a number of teams to help meet the challenge of foreign competition. One team of workers went with management to another AMP facility, learned a new stamping process and implemented it in Roanoke, creating 20 new jobs to increase output made possible by the new process. Another team of workers was assigned the task of comparing AMP's production processes to foreign competitors, a task which management had done by themselves previously. The team was better able to see how inventory levels, technology changes, and production cycles affected productivity than management had been. As a result, quality and delivery is better, prices are lower, and the company and its employees are more secure.”