Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...relations with him were always the same as anybody, anybody who came into his orbit. Reagan had no interest in individual human character. Therefore it was all one, whether the Biographer walked into the oval office, or a Labor Union leader, or the President of Bangladesh. So I never got past that genial...
...been watching the labor disputes between the security guard union and Harvard officials was surprised when most of the guards accepted a buy-out and retired. Harvard guards remain in the Yard, but in the Houses, outsourced guards stand in their stead, with the few exceptions of Harvard guards who switched to SSI, the private company providing outsourced security. The question now is whether the outsourced guards will prove an adequate replacement...
...council also heard updates on several labor issues University officials worked on over the summer. While the council is not directly responsible for these University initiatives, it regularly hears progress reports on such projects...
Rudenstine took the unusual measure of personally writing letters requiring employment data from the deans of Harvard's schools and also cut short personal obligations to attend labor meetings...
Crowing "I always get two thirds," AFL-CIO president John Sweeney on Wednesday delivered to Al Gore the endorsement he coveted, that of Big Labor. "More than any other national leader," the resolution shoved through by Sweeney read, "Al Gore has used the power of his office to defend the freedom of workers to choose a union, free from interference by their employers." For Gore, who?ll get a stump-thumping grassroots organization that his excitement-deprived campaign sorely needs ?- and one that has $40 million to spend ?- the endorsement couldn?t have come at a better time...