Word: labored
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Sharansky, who criticized Soviet policies toward Jews before being charged with treason and sent to a labor camp in 1978, changed his first name from Anatoly to Natan--gift from God in Russian--after he was taken from prison, stripped of his citizenship, and flown in 1986 to Israel, where he now resides...
Little love has been lost between the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the AFL-CIO. The labor federation expelled the Teamsters on charges of corruption in 1957, precipitating raiding wars in which each side sought to increase membership at the other's expense. That rift ended last week, when the AFL-CIO board, representing 13.1 million workers, voted to readmit the 1.8 million-strong Teamsters union. Said AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland: "This is a process of pursuing solidarity and bringing into one house all of labor's children...
Yale students, especially those who remember the last strike, have become involved in groups like the labor support group, which intends to mobilize the university community to put pressure on the administration...
...worker's job is classified is important because it determines his salary. The unions claim that some workers' classifications are too low for the work they do, said graduate student Leslie Frane, a member of the Yale Labor Support Group...
...Seidman '78, an Overseer and formerpresident of the Crimson, is writing adissertation in sociology at the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley, comparing labor movementsin South Africa and Brazil. She is grateful toGarth, Megan and Gavin for pointing outHuntington's contributions in South Africa.PhotoThemba NkosiSouth African workers in Durban in December,1985 celebrating the creation of a new democraticmovement, the Congress of South African TradeUnions...