Word: labor
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...with a reformist bent, who see the law as perhaps the principal process for channeling and controlling the fierce and explosive energies of our population. Some of these men have worked on the urban frontier, some on the international frontier, some in civil rights and civil liberties, others in labor or conservation...
Tried & Failed. As a result, employer-obtained labor injunctions largely disappeared. Even the Taft-Hartley Act, which gave the President power to seek an 80-day strike injunction when the na tional health or safety was imperiled, did not make much difference. In the 20 years since it became law, it has been invoked only 28 times...
...strike in New York City in 1966, the state legislature passed a special law exempting the union members from the punishment that was their due under the law. Last week in New York, United Federation of Teachers Leader Albert Shanker had so far escaped penalties (see EDUCATION). Most labor-law scholars agree that there are only two ways to remedy the situation. Either strikes by public employees must be allowed, or tough penalties must be imposed and enforced against unions that call public-sector strikes. The choice could be made differently for essential personnel (police, firemen) and nonessential personnel (clerks...
Economists, business, labor and financial leaders have all been sounding the same theme-but mostly in a quieter key. Abruptly and decisively, coping with inflation has become the prime concern of U.S. businessmen. What was only a nagging specter short months ago is fast gathering ominous substance. Automakers have joined the parade of summer price increases that now reach across the economy from food to steel, from appliances to plastics. General Motors raised the average price of its 1968 autos by $110, or 3.6% above the 1967 level. Strikebound Ford lifted its car prices by $114 (3.9%), Chrysler...
...international aspect of the company. My job will be concerned with the broader policy issues." On both counts, the prescription fits his talents. As the youngest head of the Bank of England in two centuries, Cromer earned a reputation as an acerbic critic of Tory and Labor governments alike during his five-year (1961-66) governorship. His stature among bankers was enormous-and helped to raise the rescue funds overnight when eleven nations, including the willing U.S., came to the defense of the British pound at its moment of greatest peril...