Word: labored
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Working in a traditional labor activist role, Ruddick represents a second generation of activist. Her mother and father protested the Vietnam War in the 1960s before returning to academia in New York, where Ruddick grew...
Ruddick, who chose the former and upon graduation next January may begin a career as a full-time labor organizer, sees a difference between the activism of 20 years ago and that in which she participates...
When she came to Harvard, Ruddick says, "I don't think I really expected [any activism] to be such a consuming commitment." However, on the basis of a "previous, more intellectual commitment" to labor issues, she attended union meetings freshman year and became more interested in the issue, eventually joining the campaign virtually full-time...
From '70 to '73 I did part-time teaching at San Jose State. SDS broke apart in '73. One part wanted to blow up somebody and did blow up themselves and then there was the Progressive Labor faction, which was riddled with class guilt. I thought this was nonsense. So I treaded water for a few years...
Harvard's allegation that in this May's union election workers were influenced by illegal union activities has brought into the spotlight the National Labor Relatioins Board (NLRB)--the federal panel which, in certifying all new unions, rules on such complaints. But some would say that in the many years of union organizing at Harvard, the board has always been a key player...