Word: labor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Civil Rights Movement continues to push forward, and remarkably has kept all of its original principles intact. The United Farm Workers' (UFW) Union, led by Cesar Chavez, has weathered 17 years of struggle with California agribusiness and since 1962, has become a viable instrument in representing and protecting farm labor...
Thus, once again, the UFW' is back in town, and is asking consumers to boycott yet another brand name: Red Coach Lettuce. Why are the farm workers asking their friends to answer yet another call for support? "Because what began as a traditional economic dispute between labor and management has turned into another attempt by growers to crush the union." UFW President Cesar Chavez says. "Because agribusiness has not really accepted the idea of free collective bargaining. Because many growers still hope to destroy...
...pension plan next year and a further $203 million over the next two years by delaying some wage raises and benefit improvements. By the end of the three years, however, Chrysler workers will be earning the same as GM and Ford employees, and the industry's hourly labor costs-wages, fringe benefits and pensions-will have jumped about one-third...
...labor settlement will help Chrysler to get federal aid. The Carter Administration has insisted that as a precondition for help Chrysler must win concessions from its bankers, dealers, supliers, executives and workers. Everyone las been reluctant to be the first to act, and some have been downright ornery. Only three weeks ago, nearly one-third of Chrysler's 180 bankers voted against renegotiating its credit lines, arguing that even a federal bailout might not save ;he company. Now that the U.A.W. has Broken the logjam, and with the presidential primaries approaching, support for Chrysler is gaining momentum...
...unnoticed. The Times of London-founded in 1785, known fondly as ''the Thunderer'' for its once imperious editorials, and for years the bulletin board of the British Establishment-will reappear in mid-November along with its sister Sunday Times after the longest and costliest labor dispute in Fleet Street history...