Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...force by 1990 v. 10 million men. Already, more than half of all women aged 20 to 64 either hold jobs or are seeking them, and their rush into the labor force has aggravated the nation's unemployment. More than 5 million women are now employed in blue-collar jobs, amounting to 18% of the total in that category...
Yale's current strike gave the YCC an opportunity to show its stuff. At the start of the strike, Yale was able to operate the freshman dining hall by assigning white-collar employees to work the kitchen, and gave upperclassmen a daily allowance to purchase food, because all other dining halls were closed. But believing that freshmen should not be forced to cross picket lines by eating in the dining hall, the YCC voted to request that Yale offer freshmen the daily stipend on an optional basis. Administrators denied the request, but after meeting the YCC officers, Hannah Gray, Yale...
...majority of Yale workers, however, the most important issue of the strike is not the wage rate, but the security of their jobs and of their union. Since 1971, Yale has eliminated 400 full-time blue-collar positions, and replaced them with part-time workers, including students on financial aid. All of these workers receive union wages, but the large number who work less than 20 hours a week do not get fringe benefits, such as paid vacation time and health care. Yale officials say that such changes are necessary in order to provide better and more efficient service...
...saying it was, she turned around to look at the screen, it couldn't be, but there it was, there were pictures, it was happening right before her eyes, she couldn't believe it, and then the picture stopped and someone was talking about a dirty shirt collar and talking about something else as if there were anything else to talk about and she heard this screaming, it was ungodly, it was coming from the back of her head, she could hear it, it was a women screaming in agony, and when she looked, there was blood all over...
...Medford's 3,548 students, include a fully equipped school of cosmetology When Medford High opened seven years ago, after an older facility burned, it cost more than $16 million?the most money the town had ever spent on anything. Medford's 60,300 residents, many of them blue-collar families of Italian and Irish descent, did not mind...