Word: bieber
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...smile on my face this morning," declared United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber at 3 a.m. last Wednesday as he announced a tentative end to the strike by 70,000 of Chrysler's U.S. employees. The weary union leader had good reason to be pleased. In a final, 42-hour bargaining session with Chrysler officials, Bieber won increases in wages and benefits that will put the company's union workers back on a par with their counterparts at Ford and General Motors. The settlement brought an end to the concessions Chrysler's workers made to help the now thriving company...
...Bieber drove a four-barreled bargain. At one point last week, the 6-ft. 5-in. union chief met with Lee Iacocca in the Chrysler chairman's office in a session complete with desk pounding, raised voices and colorful language. When Bieber finally presented the new three-year contract to his ten-member U.A.W. bargaining committee, the group gave him a round of applause and approved the deal unanimously. U.A.W. leaders predicted that the rank and file would ratify the deal early this week and return promptly to work...
...other chair of the council is Frederick R. Bieber, a Harvard Medical School professor and expert in genetics and forensic medicine. Bieber received the Award for Outstanding Service from the Justice Department for his work in identifying the remains of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks at the World Trade Center. In 1998, Bieber was appointed by then-FBI Director Louis J. Freeh to the FBI DNA Advisory Board and charged with developing quality assurance standards when handling DNA samples in criminal cases. Bieber was also appointed to the DNA Quality Assurance Oversight Committee at the Department of Defense...
...Bieber commented on the importance of the council in developing a fair and just statute, and on the necessity for the council to understand the sanctity of its charge...
...Bieber also stressed that none of the appointees to the council were questioned as to their personal views and beliefs on the nature of the death penalty...