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...food service workers' three-year-contract with the University will expire June 19. The union has asked Harvard for a dollar-an-hour, across-the-board wage hike and free medical insurance for workers. Local 26 has introduced a set of "worker dignity" proposals such as a ban on possible subcontracting of food services...
...food service workers union has asked the University for an across-the-board dollar-on-hour wage hike and free medical insurance, as well as seniority-based promotions and a ban on subcontracting food service operations to outside catering agencies. The University has not yet released its proposals for contract changes...
...most evident in the Senate Budget Committee, chaired by New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici. The committee stuck to its earlier decision to limit next year's military spending to a real increase of 5%, even though Reagan aides had belatedly signaled that he might accept a 7.5% hike instead of the 10% that he has been demanding. It also recommended raising $267 billion in additional revenue over the next five years to avoid budget deficits of $200 billion or more each year. This new revenue was $60 billion more than the Administration had indicated it would accept...
Argentina suffers from 400% inflation, 18% unemployment and a foreign debt of $40 billion. Under these circumstances, the C.G.T. marshaled 95% of the work force to protest a government proposal to freeze prices and wages at 1,000 industrial companies. The union leaders also demanded a 15% wage hike to offset what they called impending "national disintegration...
...25th big-league campaign, dabbling with a new pitch, trying his hand as a submariner. The most enchanting apparition of the spring is Masanori ("Mashi") Murakami, a Japanese lefthander who mystically reappeared with the San Francisco Giants. Mashi has more English now than the all-purpose phrase "Take a hike," taught to him by his San Francisco teammates in 1965, the year of his short, happy spin through American baseball, when his record was 4-1. Patriotism required Murakami's presence in Japan all the seasons since, but now he is back in a cactus camp, no more inclined...