Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National labor experts said yesterday that even if the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) loses the upcoming election, its 17-year-long effort will have a significant impact on the future of union campaigns in "pink-collar" jobs and private higher education...
HUCTW has built its campaign around the issues labor experts cite as typical of the new pink-collar workplace: child care, pensions, long-term employees, pay equity and medical benefits...
...Harvard's is a very significant organizing drive, particularly for women," said Dale Melcher, a professor at UMass-Amherst's Labor Relations and Research Center...
...real arguments have more to do with symbolism than logic. Adoption of the plant-closing provision would give organized labor one of its few legislative victories of recent years, and the AFL-CIO is going all out to win. It has threatened to withdraw its support of the whole bill if the plant- closing provision is stripped from it. Corporate and White House opponents fear not so much that the provision will do great damage in itself but that it will set a precedent for increasing Government regulation of business, which is anathema to Reagan's free-market philosophy. Some...
...evening session in the House of Commons was nearly over when Labor Member Ron Brown did the unforgettable -- and unforgivable. Frustrated by the government's tax policies and cuts in welfare spending, Brown roared down from his back-bench seat, hurled papers at a minister, then grabbed the 17th century ceremonial mace that rests at the center of the Commons and threw it to the floor. The nearly 5-ft.-long staff, part of the Crown Jewels, is a cherished symbol of Parliament's rule...