Word: contract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the outcome of the first contract negotiations between the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) and the University are anxiously awaited, labor experts and union organizers point to the organization of the contract negotiating process as yet another area in which the support staff union has created a new model for the labor movement...
After a long organizing campaign which polarized the clerical workers and engendered animosity between the pro-union employees and Harvard's administration, the contract talks--which will likely set the tone of future labor relations on campus--have been characterized by all involved as "friendly...
That cleared the way for Richard Gephardt, who has already passed professional, financial and sexual scrutiny as a candidate for President, to run for majority leader. Gephardt had been lying low until Coelho dropped out -- he and Coelho have a noncompete clause in their friendship contract -- so late Friday he was scrambling to get members' home phone numbers to campaign over the weekend. Georgia's Ed Jenkins, an ally of powerful Chicago Congressman Dan Rostenkowski, is another likely candidate. Former Budget Chairman Bill Gray, Arkansas' Beryl Anthony and Michigan's David Bonior will probably fight it out for Coelho...
Reaction was swift. On Wall Street Cray's stock fell 10% in one day. In Japan some thought they smelled a "political maneuver." Since U.S. agencies like to have at least two bidders on any contract, the exit of ETA opened a window of opportunity for Cray's Japanese rivals. The Cray split, they suspect, may have been designed to close that window. Cray officials do not deny it. Chuckles one: "They got the message in a hurry...
...better times the miners never worked on a Sunday (most are serious churchgoers; many are preachers). They earned more than $600 a week, had free medical benefits, seemed content with their simple lives in the savage hills and mountains of old Appalachia. For 14 months they worked without a contract while negotiating a new pact with the Pittston Coal Group, which operates some 40 mines in the region...