Word: carefulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard administrators sit down with Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers leaders to embark on contract negotiations. Suddenly, Harvard announces pay increases, a new network of child care facilities and fair job classifications for all support staff. The union negotiators eagerly sign the contract, before the Harvard officials get a chance to utter, "April Fools...
...says Thayer H. Cabot Jr., director of the Anti-Union Relations Hit Squad, which replaced the former personnel office after the April 1 incident. T. H. Cabot lays out the University's new benefit package--privileges on the Villa I Tatti golf course in Florence, Italy and reduced health care costs at University Health Services...
...meetings can do, however, is create an atmosphere of respect and cooperation. If both sides acknowledge that improving the workplace at Harvard is a common interest, then they can work together for common goals, in solving individual grievances and addressing broader concerns such as campus security and improved child care. With this tone, there will be much less interest in confrontational encounters, such as strikes or refusing to come to the table...
...handlers, who had planned to use the event to underscore Quayle's readiness to become Commander in Chief, argued that he would be undercut by having his wife tag along. Marilyn stood firm about going, until Quayle interceded and eventually persuaded her to visit a Colorado Springs day-care center instead...
...former secretary-general and current strongman of the 200,000-member oilworkers union, Hernandez, nicknamed La Quina, had built up a personal fortune and a large following among those beholden to him for jobs, education and health care. Many of the area's poor people regarded him as something of a Mexican Robin Hood. The enmity between Salinas and Hernandez dates back to the President's tenure as Secretary of Planning and Federal Budget in the administration of Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado. At that time, Salinas accused both the oil union and Pemex, the state oil company, of inefficiency...