Word: cobo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When they sit down to bargain with the car and truck manufacturers this summer, the United Auto Workers intend to drive right over President Carter's wage guidelines. This was made clear by the 3,500 delegates who crammed Detroit's Cobo Hall last week for a special convention to sort out contract demands. Douglas Fraser, the U.A.W.'s blunt president, vowed to ignore the guides when negotiations begin on the new contract (the current one expires Sept. 14). Thundered Fraser: "The Teamsters bent the hell out of the guidelines. I don't believe the 7% is a reality...
...Outside Cobo Hall, demonstrators pressed for a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for 205,400 retired auto workers and 29,100 surviving spouses. The current agreement does not have a COLA clause but pays pensioners about the same $700 a month that they were getting six years ago. Some union delegates are now talking about a raise to $1,100, plus a COLA...
Beyond uplifting urban renewal, Detroit offered the Republicans 17,400 seats in Cobo Hall, which is just three blocks from Ren Cen and its towering Plaza Hotel, with a revolving rooftop bar and a 240-seat nightclub. The hotel will serve as the party's convention headquarters. City officials assured Republicans that more than 16,000 hotel beds will be available, although only some 3,000 will be in downtown Detroit. Many will be across the river in Windsor, Ontario, and others 40 miles away in Ann Arbor and even in dormitories at the University of Michigan...
...Boston Celtics were left searching for answers to their early-season woes last night, as the Celts were soundly downed by the Detroit Pistons 100-85 at Cobo Arena. Boston is now 0-3 on the season...
...best known for their mastery of what is sometimes called classical rock, but what Emerson prefers to describe as "progressive rock with a lot of regard for the past." Their current tour of the U.S. and Canada is the first in 2½ years. Understandably, the faithful at Cobo Hall were eager to discover what their heroes were up to these days. ELP, as they are also known, responded by offering a generous sampling from their new double LP album Works, Volume 1. That included nothing less than a full-fledged Piano Concerto No. 1 by Emerson, which sounded more...