Word: contraction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workers got a one-year contract with a 50-cents-an-hour across the board pay raise. The raise means 17.2 per cent more pay for the lowest-paid dining hall workers, and 10.5 per cent for the highest-paid. The workers at the ratification meeting this week greeted the new contract with a standing ovation...
Gorski said in defense of the new shift assignments that he and the patrolmen had discussed them three months ago so he had assumed he could forego strict adherence to the contract...
...with the patrolmen again yesterday afternoon to discuss shift policy, but the contract negotiations remain deadlocked, three months after the patrolmen's contract expired...
Gorski posted assignments to the late and unpopular shift Tuesday evening, in apparent violation of a clause in the patrolmen's contract that says an opening on a shift must be posted before anyone is assigned...
...angry policemen in the Personnel Office hallway--about half the force's patrolmen--seemed to be upset about more than just a new shift. Their action came at a time when negotiations on a new contract for the patrolmen are at a standstill and many patrolmen strongly disapprove of the direction of the force since Gorski took office earlier this year...