Word: contract
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...union representing about 600 Harvard employees last night rejected a contract which its officials had negotiated with the University, and empowered the officials to call a strike if their loosely defined demands...
...Harvard University Employees Representative Association, representing janitors, maids, porters, and bakers, voted overwhelmingly to send its leaders back for another round of negotiations. The contract they rejected was for three years, including raises which averaged out to about 15 cents for the first year, 15 cents for the second year, and 10 cents for the third year...
Most of the approximately 100 workers present at Emerson 105 were opposed to the idea of a three-year contract. They wanted a two-year contract, with raises on the order of 20 or 25 cents a year. Janitors also wanted night differential...
...move prime-time flights into off-hours, a new jetport is agreed upon by New York, and new equipment is promised by the Federal Government. The stall is sending the airlines into tailspins. It costs $10 a minute to keep a 707 jet in the air, and pilots by contract cannot fly more than 80 hours per month. If the slowdown continues, the carriers will run out of pilots and the passengers out of patience...
Scratch was the cause of Wilt's itchy feet. Coming up to contract time, he demanded from the Philadelphia 76ers not his usual $250,000 yearly salary but a piece of the team. Philadelphia Owner Irv Kosloff was willing to pay him the salary, but balked at making him a partner, so he traded Wilt to the Los Angeles Lakers, whose owner Jack Kent Cooke did not need a partner either. What Cooke needs is an N.B.A. Championship, so he offered Wilt a five-year contract totaling an estimated $1,500,000. Cooke now owns three superstars: Elgin Baylor...