Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worth of maps made from aerial photographs. This was not, as Webber put it, a Captain Kidd operation. Said he: "It was purely academic, based on research and scientific technology." Webber did have to strike a sort of treasure hunter's bargain, however. In a contract with the Dominicans, he promised the government a fifty-fifty split of any treasure found...
...last union to hold out was the Star's printers. Partly as a result of a provision in the existing contract guaranteeing them lifetime jobs, the Star has 183 printers, many more than it needs to run its automated typesetting equipment. One element of the management proposal was that 80 printers be retired over six months with $40,000 in severance pay apiece. The union balked and on Dec. 31 got a court injunction barring the paper from going out of business, arguing that the contract indicated that all disputes about the agreement should be taken to arbitration. When...
...cent raise would amount to about an 8.3 per cent increase. Carter's voluntary wage-fringe benefit guidelines only allow for a 7 per cent increase over the life of a contract...
...however, the union agreed to hold its wage increase in the second year to less than 6 per cent, it would bring the contract into compliance with the guidelines...
...Grospiron, president of the union, said the strike was unauthorized, but was neither illegal nor a wildcat strike since the contract had expired...