Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Workers will return under the old contract, which precipitated the 42-day conflict, while a union-management committee undertakes a month-long study of conditions in the entire club industry. Negotiations for a new contract will resume after the study...
...steelmen, these losses were only a down payment. Gambling on a quick end to the strike, they had used most of their coal reserves to keep production as close to normal as possible. They would hardly be able to rebuild the reserves by June 30, when the miners' contract expires and another strike is expected. The next one, if it comes, would force a quick and sharp cut in steel production...
...Local 205, United Financial Employes, A.F.L. had won little: the Curb agreed to change its pre-strike offer of a temporary 10% cost-of-living bonus to a straight 10% wage raise, but it did not grant demands for a union shop and it insisted on a two-year contract...
...masons walked out April 1 after negotiations to renew their freshly-expired contract had failed to reach a wage figure acceptable to both the union and the contractors. The bricklayers are asking a 35 cent an hour raise over the $2.15 amount they received under the old contract. The Fuller Contracting Company has countered by proffering a 20 cent hourly increase...
Retiring University employees will now come under a new income and group life insurance program, as a result of a new University ruling which abolishes the present 10-year old annuity contract system...