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This is not the first time the University has refused to bargain in good faith with the patrolmen. Earlier this fall Harvard negotiators refused to negotiate a compromise over a union proposal to adopt a new work schedule similar to those at several other local and university police departments and then tried to pressure the union by threatening to withdraw retroactive wage increases to be granted after a new contract is approved. And last year the University forced a union grievance into binding arbitration--which found on behalf of the patrolmen--instead of negotiating with its workers...
...mean that any employer that isconcerned about the health of employees andliability will have to adopt restrictions on thejob," said Pinney. He also recommended thatparents avoid smoking around their children...
Authoritarian approaches do not lead to lasting political solutions. Israeli leaders must adopt a different attitude toward dissent or betray the democratic ideals on which their nation was founded. The U.S. can back Israel without backing intolerance and oppression. American influence in Israel is enormous. It should support more democracy, not less...
Peter Schwartz, publisher of the leading objectivist journal, The Intellectual Activist, said Reagan's current defense policy amounts to nuclear reduction through negotiation and "is the most immoral doctrine we could adopt...
...worried: "America is now sauntering through her resources and through the mazes of her politics with easy nonchalance; but presently there will come a time when she will be surprised to find herself grown old -- a country crowded, strained, perplexed -- when she will be obliged . . . to pull herself together, adopt a new regimen of life, husband her resources, concentrate her strength, steady her methods, sober her views, restrict her vagaries, trust her best, not her average, members...