Word: hardships
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...special "forgiveness" cases the University does not require a student to repay his loan. These are extreme hardship cases, usually involving chronic mental or physical disabilities...
Without claiming economic hardship, Cambion provoked the strike and has refused to bargain. Cambion tried illegally to withhold vacation wages earned by workers before the strike began. And two years ago the NLRB ruled Cambion had illegally fired two workers for their support of the union organizing drive at the plant...
...economic hardship of maintaining a strike for over half a year has proven too difficult to bear for people with families to support. In recent weeks many strikes began returning to work, and the union did not relish picket-line confrontations with workers who have stayed with the strike for months...
...jobless checks at one time or another. Add food stamps, welfare, union unemployment benefits (which in the auto industry bring jobless aid up to as much as 95% of take-home pay for some workers), and it is clear that most of the unemployed get by today without severe hardship...
CAMBION, WHICH refuses to discuss the strike, is making no claims of economic hardship. In fact, while workers have asked for a 70 cents hourly increase, Cambion has offered only 20 cents, but has spent enough money on a special police detail at the plant since the strike began to have paid workers a 51-cent-per-hour increase for a year...