Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five years, Local 880 has unsuccessfully tried to persuade the employees of Harvard's teaching hospitals that their interests would be better served if they voted to join the union...
Local 880's organizing efforts began in 1974, when Beth Israel's service employees voted, 325-122, not to join the union. The union conducted another organizing campaign at the Boston Hospital for Women in 1976, and again the workers voted against the union. However, after the election the staff director for the union, Gerald M. Shea, filed a complaint with the NLRB alleging that the hospital had intimidated and coerced its workers, and in one incident, attempted bribery. Shea says the Board ruled in the winter of 1977 that the hospital was guilty of illegal practices in the election...
...members of the crew live in motel rooms, paid for by the Smalls, eat bountifully of the well-prepared home cooking around the tables in the Smalls' house trailers, and make up to $200 a week. "You know what it would be like to go off and join a carnival?" says one of the boys. "Well, this is better...
...month provoked the latest round of internecine bloodshed by attacking rival guerrilla organizations in several cities, has been desperately trying to redirect the fraternal rage. In an attempt to reconcile the warring factions, he called for the creation of a unified "armed forces of the Palestinian movement" that would join the commandos in a new assault on Israel...
...publishers do not seem to be in a compromising mood. Besides, even if the pressmen were to survive this skirmish, the papers would no doubt be laying for them next time, and papers in other cities might eventually join the war. The pressmen are in a sense the last casualties in the newspaper industry's long, wrenching and inevitable shift from benign, family-dominated management to the more bloodless, efficient and profit-minded imperatives that other industries adopted decades ago. The pressmen, meanwhile, will continue to resist?and grow old. The News's Frank Boylan endured the rigors...