Word: gnomon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author explains at the book's outset, gnomes are now nearly forgotten beings. Although a few do find their way into the public eye, like MIT's innovative linguist, Gnome Chomsky, or the tiny people who scraped together their life savings to open Gnomon Copy, or the hardy pioneers who founded Gnome, Alaska, most gnomes prefer the quiet life, in tune with Nature and all her creatures. This is why many people have never seen gnomes, and why some people go so far as to doubt the very existence of the little creatures. You might as well ask if Santa...
Harvard's campaign resembled, on a grand scale, the drive engineered by John Sytek, vice president of Gnomon Copy, against District 65 members who tried to organize Gnomon workers. Both efforts argued that the union's rigid bureaucratic structure would hamper employer-employee relations, and stressed what they called District 65's poor record both in organizing elections and in negotiations. Each implied that the union was seeking to organize in Massachusetts only to generate dues revenue to offset losses from its New York operation; as Edward W. Powers, Harvard's associate general counsel for employee relations, said...
...both anti-union campaigns were successful: the Gnomon workers voted down District 65 two months before last week's decisive election in the Med Area. But the workers' rejection of District 65 stemmed net from a lack desire for a union, but from fears--fueled by Harvard's information campaign--that District 65 would not be strong enough to bargain forcefully with the University. While NLRB records show the union owes only a small percentage of its assets to creditors-giving the lie to the argument that District65's organizing drive was largely a mercenary operation-many workers who said...
Brian D. Knox, spokesman for a group of Gnomon workers opposing unionization, said yesterday the union may attempt to invalidate the election by charging Gnomon management with unfair labor practices during the election...
...votes debated by the union and the NLRB count in favor of unionization, a tie will result, Sytek said. A tie vote defeats the attempt to unionize the Gnomon copy workers, according to NLRB rules...