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Last week, as it started celebrating its 100th anniversary, the National Education Association had nearly 700,000 members, accounting for 54% of the nation's teachers, superintendents, principals, professors and college presidents. In its new $7,000,000 green-glass and white-limestone Washington, D.C. headquarters alone, N.E.A. has...
From the strike the I.L.A. emerged victorious: it had won almost all its demands on contract length (three years), wage boosts (up 32? to $2.80 an hour), fringe benefits and, perhaps most important, the union dues check-off system, which will give it more leverage in dealing with recalcitrant locals...
AMERICAN MOTORS, which has not paid dues to the National Association of Manufacturers for three years, has withdrawn from the N.A.M. because of "fundamental disagreement with its policies." Automaker charges N.A.M. with an "antediluvian attitude toward labor."
Debate over NSA participation began last year when 25 students signed a petition to put Radcliffe's membership to an all-college vote. The students complained that the benefits did not justify the annual costs of $75 in dues and $400 to send delegates to conferences.
Gang and lately a TV sportscaster, sniffed at the plush-lined genteelness of today's game. As ex-Manager Frisch sees it, baseball training camps nowadays "are no more than country clubs without dues." Other evidence of baseball's decline from its rigors of yore: "In my day...