Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fashioned union-busting--is relatively clearcut. But the strike also continues to raise other important issues: the inadequacy of the National Labor Relations Board in protecting the right of workers to organize has been made all too apparent. The questionable deployment of a poorly disciplined Cambridge police detail at the plant has aroused a furor. And problems in labor organizing in the electronics industry as a whole have made the developments surrounding this strike particularly significant...
CAMBION, WHICH refuses to discuss the strike, is making no claims of economic hardship. In fact, while workers have asked for a 70 cents hourly increase, Cambion has offered only 20 cents, but has spent enough money on a special police detail at the plant since the strike began to have paid workers a 51-cent-per-hour increase for a year...
With Cambion using illegal tactics to avoid meeting the union's demands, it is regrettable that the Cambridge Police Department has seen fit to provide a police detail, paid overtime wages, to bring strikebreakers into the plant. Individual patrolmen should weigh carefully the moral implications of profiting from participation in strikebreaking activities...
Johnson is master of the arresting detail, the vivid personality sketch. In an evocative little essay on St. Ambrose, the Roman magistrate who became Bishop of Milan in 373, he pauses to note Augustine's surprise when he found that Ambrose could read silently to himself-a rare skill in the ancient world. Discussing the opening of the Council of Trent, the great 16th century Catholic assembly that began the Counter Reformation, he observes how Christoforo Madruzzo, the host bishop, opened the meeting with a 74-dish banquet and 100-year-old wine. After dinner, Madruzzo...
After viewing the report last Monday the council decided that because of the city's potential liability the police detail would have to be continued. But the council did pass a motion requesting the city manager to do "everything in his power" to settle the strike...