"coordinators"

[Richard Marens]

The project I am working on between glances at this list examines what
appears to be a growing bifurcation in the ranks of people who are hired
to "coordinate."  It makes sense.  The Boeing strike signaled that
labor, or at least the rank-and-file, would finally say "no mas"
to unrelenting downward pressure, particularly those workers
whose role in production makes them essentially scab proof (machinists at
Boeing are still basically craft workers). Excluded from
Wagner Act and FSlA protection, managers are particularly vulnerable, and
their relatively high pay has proven to be an irresistable target in the
age of cost cutting.