Word: laboration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find ways to negotiate a position both sides can live with." Through the Business Roundtable, the CEOs worked out the administration's current national health plan which makes the plan's implementation dependent on the progress of the economy. DeButts also mentions the consumer protection bill, and the labor law reform act as areas that the CEOs tried to modify. In both of the latter, however, their efforts at moderation failed, and the business community at large opposed the compromise legislation...
WITH THE DEATH of Sherman Holcombe last week, Harvard workers lost an articulate and impassioned advocate of employee rights. Throughout his years as a dining hall worker. Holcombe consistently protested unfair labor practices such as job discrimination, safety conditions, non-posting of job opportunities, and inadequate hiring or promoting of minorities...
Holcombe became the focus of labor controversy in the spring of 1976. When the Radcliffe dining hall management suspended him--qstensibly for cooking cauliflower too soon--he submitted a list of five safety grievances. Dining hall workers left their jobs for an emergency meeting, and students, some faculty and workers rallied to pressure for his rein-statement. After his suspension, Holcombe worked at the Freshman Union until his death...
Although the union and trucking industry announced the contract settlement would lead to higher labor costs of about 30 per cent over three years, the administration officials disagreed saying the contract only leads to a 26.5 per cent three-year increase in labor costs...
...administration's calculations involved subtracting several increases exempt from the guidelines to lower the total labor cost increase, administration officials said...