Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heineman announced that for cash and stock exchanges totaling $367 million, the C. & N.W. was acquiring Essex Wire Corp. (annual sales: $375 million), a Fort Wayne, Ind. firm that makes wire, cable, switches and auto parts in 54 U.S. and Canadian plants. The railroad seems to be getting a bargain. Essex itself last week announced that it was acquiring Stevens Manufacturing Co. and Boyne Products, Inc., both of them small manufacturers of control devices...
...Harvard Police Association, others to large affiliated groups like the International Chefs and Pastry Cooks' Union (AFL-CIO) or the International Union of Operating Engineers (AFL-CIO). In recent years the trend has been towards affiliaiton with large AFL-CIO unions because of their highly qualified business agents and bargainers. The small independent unions choose their bargaining committees from within their own membership and these men have grown to feel inadequate when trying to get a contract from the professionals in the Harvard Personnel Office. Says one man who served on a bargaining committee, "you come in to bargain after...
...Crafts Maintenance Council is not a union itself but rather a committee of craft union business agents. Under the Crafts Maintenance Council plan, the members of the BGMA would join the unions appropriate to their trades, and the committee of business agents from these unions would bargain at Harvard...
...impartial observer who followed the hearings says, however, that the Harvard statement was more a pro forma gesture rather than document of intent. He feels certain from observing the hearings that it is Harvard's intention to bargain with the union that truly represents the BGMA workers...
...both Cairo and Beirut last week came hints that the crisis might be negotiated. Nasser, who has won a political victory by leading the Arabs to the brink of war, does not want to gamble his winnings by actually leading them to war. He is reportedly ready to bargain with Israel for the lifting of his blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba. His price: "acceptable" Israeli compensation to the 1.3 million Palestine refugees, plus a token "border adjustment" that would return a small sliver of Israeli desert to Arab sovereignty. The border adjustment is a question of repairing Arab honor...