Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right. This strike isn't about demands for outlandish salaries or featherbedded work rules. The miners on the pickets of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky are struggling over the basic dignities that American workers can reasonably expect--the right to bargain collectively in good faith, the right to a contract and the right to health benefits for retirees, disabled workers and surviving spouses...
After the last contract expired in January, 1988, Pittston stopped paying such medical benefits. For 17 months, the UMWA postponed a strike and continued to work without a contract, while Pittston ceased paying into its benefit plan. This January, governors of three states intervened in the dispute, asking Pittston and the union to negotiate face to face. The miners agreed; Pittston refused...
Sony reportedly hopes to put the two hitmakers in top posts at Columbia, but that courtship raises some knotty questions about how the two would fulfill their existing obligations. Guber and Peters recently renewed an exclusive five-year production agreement with Warner Bros. Already in the works under that contract are a sequel to Batman, a film adaptation of Bonfire of the Vanities and other projects. Sony's first creative challenge may be negotiating a deal under which rival Warner gets its hits and Guber and Peters are given a shot at jump-starting Columbia. Now that Sony has paid...
...echo the values and interests of their readers? And does it really make a difference whether Americans know about disasters elsewhere? It certainly does when it comes to amassing donations or building a congressional coalition for emergency relief. It also matters in a less material way because every social contract, from the tribe to the United Nations, is based on recognizing common human bonds. Whether the fault lies with news consumers or with editors who pander to them, the bell ought to toll equally for thee, and thee, and thee...
...current negotiations between Harvard and HUCTW do not involve the provisions of the agreement--which were voted on in June--but the formal language of the contract itself...