Multinational Monitor, Washington DC, Tel: 202-387-8030.

We indexed one article from Multinational Monitor, from the May 1984 issue. This was by Mark Dowie, Peter Hayes, Tim Shorrock, and Lyuba Zarsky, about how Bechtel Corporation paid bribes to the Korean government between 1978 and 1980 to win nuclear power plant contracts. At the time, Caspar Weinberger and George Shultz were at Bechtel. This article attracted nationwide publicity.

Multinational Monitor is one of Ralph Nader's projects, and when the editors failed to hold off on this story before he had a chance to read the final version, he fired them. That's his story. The editors claimed he fired them for trying to form a union, and went to the NLRB to complain about earning $13,000 a year for 60-hour work weeks, poor working conditions, and lack of grievance procedures. The reason they went to press quickly was that the New York Times was onto the same story. Nader's response was that it's not a job, but a higher calling of serving the public interest, so there's no reason for union activity. Nader won. He simply told the editors that he was transferring the Monitor to another of his nonprofit corporations, which chose not to continue their employment.

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