Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...behaves more strategically, as Harvard does, it avoids such situations. But these incidents are, in any case, relatively inconsequential. The university's position--determined by the strength of its ties with other powerful institutions--is far too secure to be threatened by powerless students or concerned faculty. The university guild has only to sit tight and it will remain untoppled...
...press conference on Saturday, the committee presented a statement saying, "We oppose the deployment of the Sentinel system, and in particular its location in the greater Boston area." The government has already begun work on a Sentinel missile installation at Camp Curtis Guild in Reading, Lynnfield and Wakefield, and on a radar site in North Andover. However, the Defense Department last week halted all work on such installations pending further study...
...importance of ideas, people come together in universities; and it is an awareness, however dim and however cluttered by departmental and disciplinary boundaries, of that common devotion that makes the members of a university feel they are part of a community and not simply journeymen in some guild...
Thus the AP led its own story last week on the first strike by editorial employees in its history. While most Guild reporters, photographers, cartoonists and clerks (total AP Guild membership: 1,374) either manned or respected picket lines in front of AP bureaus across the country, nearly 2,000 non-strikers, supervisory personnel and unaffected overseas staffers continued to churn out a steady flow of teletype news to AP's roughly 8,500 worldwide subscribers...
...issue were only money, the strike could probably be settled quickly. The Guild is demanding a minimum salary of $264 a week for experienced newsmen; AP offered $14 less, or $250. A more basic difference is the Guild's insistence that eight out of ten new AP employees must join the union. AP General Manager Wes Gallagher has called the demand "non-negotiable." If the AP "is to maintain its standards of objectivity," he said, "it cannot force its news employees into any organization, including a union...