Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another similar "Coop Group" slate ran in the spring of 1982, hoping to build on the experiences of their predecessors. Again, they captured five of the 11 student seats...
...springs ago, labor organizers failed in their attempt to unionize Coop workers, prompting charges that management had interfered unfairly with the drive. The department store's recent expansion into Boston provoked cries that it was becoming more of an impersonal business corporation than a student-oriented cooperative. These criticisms were intensified by the common complaint that the University's main textbook store was taking advantage of students by exacting monopoly prices...
...elections for student members of the Coop Board of Directors provided an outlet for these gripes and a slate of nine candidates called the "Coop Group" ran on a platform of progressive management reform. Five won, and they carried their crusade onto the 23-member board...
...five months into their term, the second-generation "Coop Group" slate has modified some of its aims. The labor issue has died down, since over the summer union organizers decided not to hold another election despite the National Labor Relations Board's findings of impropriety against the Coop...
...some ways, they have altered their original approach. A prominent example is textbooks, where all three slate members available for comment this week said they were now convinced that their original call for lower prices was unreasonable. "We found out that on the whole, the Coop does sell the bottom line on prices," said slate member John H. Adler '81, a second-year law student...