Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past year, the un easiness of Spain's military leaders had come to focus on five major areas: the press, the lawyers, labor, the church and the universities...
Spain's traditionally conservative bishops last fall unanimously signed a pastoral letter calling on the government to abandon delays in enacting a mild labor-reform bill, and younger priests began pressing for social reforms. In January, Madrid's bar association passed by acclamation a resolution demanding better treatment for political prisoners. News papers and magazines, given comparatively comprehensive freedoms by the press law of 1966, had become more and more candid in their appraisals of the regime. Labor unrest continued to grow...
...campaigning for the first basic labor reform in 60 years, Mrs. Castle is up against harder foes than pub owners or irate drivers. The problem of overlapping unions-there are 35 in the British auto industry, 16 in steel-leads to endless jurisdictional disputes. It also forces employers to bargain with many competing unions simultaneously and makes industry-wide negotiations almost impossible. Remarkably, unions are not bound by the agreements that they sign, and there are no legal provisions for cooling-off periods or court injunctions to forestall even the most outrageous strikes. As a result, more than...
...ordering a 28-day "conciliation pause" and 3) impose settlements in jurisdictional disputes that union leaders are unable to resolve among themselves. Trade unionists who defy a government order would be subject to fines. On the other hand, the paper turned down the plea of management groups that all labor contracts should be made legally binding...
...Castle's recipe will probably be enacted by Parliament with little change early next year. Politicians realize that most Britons are heartily tired of industrial strife. A poll by the Sunday Times showed that two-thirds of the country's union members also strongly favor basic labor reforms...