Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only when there are no revisionists deceiving the masses can the proletarians unite to destroy their oppressors. What could be more effective and more Leninist than to use the bourgeois armies to destroy the revisionists? The Progressive Labor Party should therefore adopt the slogans: "Victory Now! Bomb Hanoi! Long Live People's War When It Is Fought According To The Maoist Line Without Help From Anyone Else!" Benjamin Ross...
RELATIONS between management and organized labor in the private sector of the U.S. economy have been maturing for decades. Out of negotiation, intermittent conflict, legislation and court decision, there has emerged a generally workable system that breaks down on some spectacular occasions but in the main serves the cause of both sides as well as the public good. Not so in the crucially important and rapidly expanding public sector, which embraces everyone who works for government at any level-federal, state, county and municipal-and embodies every conceivable skill, from schoolteaching to garbage disposal. In that area, labor relations...
Some 12 million Americans, one-sixth of the national labor force, now work in the public service. In the next seven years, this figure is expected to reach 15 million. Until relatively recent years, the widely held public point of view was that these government employees-whatever their number and whatever their classification-had no right to organize, let alone a right to strike. In 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt called public strikes "unthinkable and intolerable." United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther said in 1966 that "society cannot tolerate strikes that endanger the very survival of society," and proposed finding...
...upwards of 250. Dr. Sam M. Lambert, executive secretary of the National Education Association, which represents one million teachers and administrators, has predicted 250 strikes by teachers alone next year. Says Pennsylvania University Industry Professor George W. Taylor, principal source of New York State's public-employee labor law: "It's going to be a mess for generations...
...against $1.79 for government workers. By 1967, the gap had widened: $3.49 to $3.09. Not many employees any longer consider it a privilege to work for the government. The job security of civil service has lost considerable point in a boom economy, where the demand for labor outstrips the supply. The effect of all this is evident in one statistic. Although union membership nationally has increased only 15% since 1956, it has increased 60% in the field of government...