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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Union organizers and staff set up "drop in centers" campus wide to answer questions about the contract. But no membership meetings were called so that rank-and-file members could hear each other's concerns and opinions and debate with one another prior to the vote. Instead, the union office launched a vigorous pro-ratification campaign designed to guarantee acceptance of the contract and smother rank-and-file critical debate...
...stewards. We must legislate regular membership meetings where important issues can be debated openly and fairly. We must institute a system of recall and accountability for leadership positions and decisions. And most of all, we must start turning to each other and our own selves--ordinary rank-and-file members--for ideas, inspiration and ultimate authority. We are the union. Let's start acting like it. Tamsey K. Andrews Member, HUCTW Widener Library
...primary advance of Release 3, which sells for $495, is its ability to link as many as 256 spreadsheets in one computer file, creating an almost three-dimensional effect in the way they can be combined to make different calculations. Lotus plans to offer a simpler version, called Release 2.2, within a few months...
...protracted power struggle among China's leaders. The disarray was signaled by the failure in recent weeks of party elders to reach consensus on the formal ouster of party chief Zhao Ziyang, who had lost favor because he sympathized with the student protesters. Within the party rank and file, the hard-liners' attempts to brand Zhao a counterrevolutionary had met with silent resistance and even mutters of bu dui (not correct...
...years since the Watergate scandal, repeated efforts at reform have failed because they do not reach the systemic problem. Public officials are now required to file endless financial-disclosure reports, limit the private contributions they accept and wait longer and longer periods of time before they are allowed to lobby their former colleagues. But disclosure works for Congress only if constituents have the opportunity to pore through the voluminous reports and then vote based on what they find there. This welter of regulations has done almost nothing to choke off the cash flow...