Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rican students gathered at the foot of the Administration building to hear Dr. Gallagher's response to the Five Demands. There, Dr. Gallagher made a serious mistake--he tried to be evasive. He tried to deal with the BPRSC like he dealt with the white radicals (SDS, DuBois, Progressive Labor Party etc). President Gallagher wasn't prepared to respond to a substantive program. As the crowd became more and more dissatisfied with his answers, Gallagher realized that his presence was a threat to his own safety--and he left...
Domestic manufacturers blame their troubles primarily on the gap between U.S. and foreign wages. In the U.S., wages and benefits for shoe workers average $2.75 an hour, compared with $1 in Italy, 560 in Spain, 580 in Japan and 480 in Taiwan. Labor is indeed a prime cost factor in an industry that has never been able to mechanize to any great extent. But price is not the only reason that the imports do so well. Craftsmanship and leadership in styling are equally valid explanations for the appeal of foreign shoes, particularly those from Italy, which account...
...nation's leading experts on arbitration of labor disputes will spend next year at Harvard...
While at the University, he will spend his research time writing about collective bargaining and the mediation process. In his 30 years of labor arbitration and mediation, Simkin has handled some 4000 cases, including issues in virtually every major industry...
Before his labor arbitration career, he worked in West Virginia training unemployed miners for work in a furniture factory. He received his B.S. degree from Earlham College, and has also studied at Columbia and Pennsylvania...