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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that staff members of OIT--a little-known University organization that for a fee offers in-house advice on computer use--have repeatedly milked Fiscal Services by sloppy contract enforcement and incompetent systems and applications analysis...
...staff would offer as head of Financial Systems (indeed, Wyatt's success on this front was cited this summer when he was named to the vice presidential post); In other words, in his second position Wyatt held a consulting veto power over decisions like whether or not to contract for work from OIT. From the Financial Systems post, Brown-Beasley adds, Wyatt could assure the OIT computer, analysts and programmers a steady stream of work. He would also be less likely to blow the whistle on projects that ran past deadlines and that thus afforded more...
That the initial applications software (the programs for the computer system, as opposed to the machine itself, which is called the hardware) could not be salvaged after running over the deadline several months and cost thousands of dollars over the original contract cost...
Among Sadlowski's biggest targets is the Experimental Negotiating Agreement, signed in 1973 by the U.S.W. and the steel companies and first applied to an actual contract in 1974. The agreement was hailed as a model of labor statesmanship because it combined flexibility on wages and benefits with a prohibition against strikes. The three-year contract now in effect, for example, gave the workers large increases the first year, guaranteed smaller raises the second and third years and allowed the union to reopen to press for more. But it provided that disputes over wages and benefits be settled...
Sadlowski's campaign faces serious problems. Most important, perhaps, Abel supporters point out that during the contract that Sadlowski derides, union wages have risen $1.97 an hour, or 35%. That is more than twice the climb in the Consumer Price Index. Also, though Sadlowski's grassroots, "Hi ya, buddy" style is appealing to rank and filers, he is not well known outside his district. Some Steelworkers familiar with Sadlowski are suspicious of his friendships with such men as liberal Washington Attorney Joseph Rauh and former J.F.K.-L.B.J. Speechwriter Richard Goodwin. McBride, who went into the mills...