Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROUSSEAU AND REVOLUTION, by Will and Ariel Durant. This final volume of their 38-year labor to record man's progress through 20 civilizations, once again demonstrates the Durants' immense talent for transmuting tireless research into never tiresome storytelling...
Howling Dog. Reagan, for his part, ebulliently went back to state problems before embarking on another tour of fund raisers. His rhetoric certainly remained colorful. Labor leaders protested when Reagan allowed convicts to help harvest California fruit and vegetable crops, but Reagan at a press conference pointed out that the union had failed to provide sufficient manpower to bring in the crops before they were in danger of rotting. Said Reagan of the union leaders: "Sometimes they remind me of a dog sitting on a sharp rock howling with pain, who is too stupid to get up." Then he ordered...
Everything is so bad because, for some reason, farm workers are not covered under the National Labor Relations Act. This law guarantees workers the right to unionize if they have so indicated by a majority vote and ensures that both parties, manager and employee, must bargain "in good faith...
David Fine, head of labor and industrial relations for "Stop and Shop," has said "no" in less picturesque terms. He, in fact, cited three reasons. (1) Most of the company's workers belong to unions, thereby proving the good will of "Stop and Shop." (2) Giumarra grapes are the highest quality grapes on the market and settling for anything less would be selling the customer short. (3) If "Stop and Shop" were to accede to the organizers' request, they would be bound to the same reaction "the next time." And if they had to stop selling every product made...
Managers of "Stop and Shop" have an equally serious sense of their own importance. They claim the boycott is doomed to failure and the picketing is an unsightly waste of time. Concludes labor-management coordinator Fine, "It is something like pinching a pimple on an elephant's back...