Word: frasers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pigs, Peter Wyden ∙ Billy Graham, Marshall Frady ∙ Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙ Confession and Avoidance, Leon Jaworski ∙ The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙ The Powers That Be, David Halberstam ∙ To Set the Record Straight, John J. Sirica
...union refuses to specify its wage demands yet, but they surely will not be mini-sized; Fraser declared last April that the 7% guidelines had "self-destructed...
...insists too that the "No. 1 priority demand" is to adopt a cost of living escalator for union pensioners. Fraser intends to push for a four-day work week, though he will probably have to battle for a few more days off with pay (auto workers can now take 39.5 of them a year...
There is some fear for the unions future after Fraser and other senior officers retire. A whole group of the committed, heads-busted-on-picket-lines generation has to be out by 1983. Fraser is the first to admit that the union could "go the way of all flesh." But he is convinced that "we are steeped in tradition and history that is apt to produce a certain kind of leadership." Surely tomorrow's auto union chiefs, whoever they are, will learn quite a bit from watching how Fraser handles the problem of asking for more in a lean...
...Mirabell: Books of Number, James Merrill ∙Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick Sophie's Choice, William Styron Testimony and Demeanor, John Casey ∙The Living End, Stanley Elkin -Wild Oats, Jacob Epstein NONFICTION: Bay of Pigs, Peter Wyden ∙Billy Graham, Marshall Frady ∙Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser ∙Confession and Avoidance, Leon Jaworski ∙The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas ∙The Powers That Be, David Halberstam ∙To Set the Record Straight, John J. Sirica