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Remington Rand – By Bradford Morgan White

The second life of UNIVAC

With his business a shadow of its former self, two loves lost, and the country seemingly unable to recover, I imagine that Rand’s view of the world at this time was extremely dark. They’d just been through a lengthy process of negotiations between the company’s leadership and the workers’ unions while Remington Rand closed various factories, laid off staff, and fired several labor organizers. The National Labor Relations Board ultimately ruled in favor of the workers on the 13th of March in 1937, and the unions approved a settlement with Remington Rand on the 21st of April.

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