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Until last week, what is known in military parlance as "the necklace" was mostly invisible to American civilians. The fleet of 150 warplanes, flying from 10 bases ringing the U.S., costs taxpayers about $1 million a day defending the nation's air sovereignty. In 1993 Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell recommended that the fleet be scrapped, saying, "We have a large number of planes that are still waiting for Soviet bombers to come over the North Pole." Last week there were fresh reasons for grounding the relic--two episodes in which it seemed as if U.S. warplanes were...
...would return to work if management would agree to rehire all the strikers, something that the company has already said it will not do. Unions hope that a refusal of their offer will help make their case before the National Labor Relations Board that Detroit Newspapers, which manages the joint business and production operations for The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press, is trying to break the srike. If that complaint is upheld, strikers would be entitled to return to jobs now performed by the some1,300 new employees the company says are permanent replacements. The move represents...
...Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) voted Thursday to ratify a joint University-HUCTW agreement that will halt a reduction of part-time worker health benefits for another year. The agreement, first announced last month, was endorsed by 89 percent of HUCTW's 3,600 members...
...negotiations are far from complete. The Joint-Committee on Benefits, made up of Union and University officials, will continue to work towards a permanent settlement...
Union officials also applauded the joint agreement as a major ideological shift in the University's approach to part-time workers' benefits...