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...surprise coup at the ballot box on Friday, New York City transit workers refused to ratify the contract that their leadership negotiated for them in the wake of the three-day pre-Christmas strike, reviving fears that the city may again be paralyzed by a work stoppage...
...margin of defeat was rail-thin. Out of over 22,000 votes cast, there were just seven more nays than yeas. But short of a recount, the contract is dead-a stark reversal of fortunes for Transport Workers Union president Roger Toussaint. During the strike, the former subway car cleaner survived the wrath of millions of nettled commuters just long enough to win some real concessions from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Toussaint faces possible jail time for the strike, not to mention the millions in fines leveled at the union, but he had managed to preserve pensions and lock...
...Coke’s bottlers. The ILRF would not agree to allow evidence uncovered by the investigation to be excluded from the trial proceedings. In response, the DRB cited Coke for its slowness in responding to requests for a third-party investigation and recommended that Michigan not renew its contracts with the company, which expired on Jan. 1. We can’t help but express skepticism about the logic used by Michigan to end its contract with Coke. Both its process and its weighting of the burden of proof appear suspect. From a process standpoint, without the power...
...arrangement has worked, at least financially. Before the start of this season and last, Snickers, drawn to the young audience that snowboarding attracts, signed a handsome contract with the Collection. Nickelodeon and Yamaha have also inked deals with the maverick boarders...
...that it is heavy handed, but not about anything exactly. It seems as if Dunmore wanted the audience to take away a deeper message from the movie, perhaps about the sex-filled soullessness of our own times. All I ended up feeling was that I was resolved to never contract an STD. The same end could have been accomplished by watching an after-school special starring Amy Jo Johnson. —Staff writer Rebecca M. Harrington can be reached at harring@fas.harvard.edu...