Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson editorial dated April 1, 1981, the Crimson asked why the textbook prices are so high at the Coop, etc., etc. We have compared [prices of six "well-known" textbooks] to five other college stores in and out of our area. In addition to competitive textbook prices. Coop members last year received a rebate of 9.5 per cent, the largest rebate we know of in America in any bookstore cooperative (Yale had a 4.5 percent rebate...
Saturday Heather bought thesis binders. Half a dozen people had told her this purchase would be the climax of the thesis rush, the point of no return, the sunlight at the end of the tunnel. It wasn't. The Coop had run out of binders. She found them eventually, but they were outrageously expensive. Later she learned the department gave out old ones gratis...
...John Finney, another union official, said filing objections was largely a matter of long-term political action and added that he hoped the Coop would be ready for another union election during the next few years...
Union officials' belief that the Coop influenced its employees unfairly led them to file objections with the NLRB. asking for the election to be held again. Although it seems unlikely that holding the election again could reverse the employees' decision. William T. McDonough, a UFCW organizer, said this week that he had no plans to abandon the organization effort and the signatures on more than 300 union authorization cards convinced him that the store confused many employees into voting against their original intentions...
Dressed as one might expect to find her--in a prep-plaid shirt, green sweater, blue blazer, penny loafers, and Nantucket accessories--Lisa Birnbach, editor and coauthor of "The Official Preppy Handbook" came to the Coop yesterday to sign copies of her book...