Word: bargaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike began with Portland's 54-member Stereotypers' Local No. 48, whose key demand was that four-man crews be used on a new German automatic press plate casting machine, designed for operation by one man, that the Oregonian plans to buy. The Journal refused to bargain separately, and the stereotypers walked off both papers, to be followed by members of all the other newspaper unions. At that point the executives, editorial-page writers, ad salesmen, secretaries and other nonunion employees of the Oregonian and the Journal put on yellow aprons and ran off a joint, jury...
...days will serve the public purpose only if they become the cooling-off period envisioned in the law. Under terms of the law, federal mediators must lead the negotiators back to the table, but they cannot make them bargain. After 60 days the President's Board of Inquiry must report on progress and specify management's last offer. Within 15 days-at least five days before the injunction expires-the National Labor Relations Board must take a secret ballot among workers to see whether they will accept the offer...
Then, with bland audacity, Red China's latest note hinted at a weird bargain: if India would give up a portion of Kashmir around Ladakh, China might stop its border pressure in India's Northeast Frontier Agency, a region lying 850 miles farther to the east between India and Tibet, whose frontier was settled 45 years ago when the so-called McMahon Line was defined. "If Indian troops may cross at will the traditional and customary Sino-Indian boundary in [Ladakh] for so-called patrolling, then Chinese troops would have all the more reason to come...
Back to Abnormal. Authority collapses in the persons of the warden and the chaplain; there is nothing left but the tainted and ambiguous influence of the psychologist, who must bargain for peace and the lives of the guards. Before the insurrection is over, one man has been tortured and two cons are dead (killed by their fellows because they tried to spoil the gratuitous beauty of the riot with an attempt at escape...
...kiss-and-tell TV contestants of the ill-famed quiz shows [Oct. 19]: it takes at least two to make a bargain, crooked or otherwise...