Word: laborities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...though Bush is unlikely to specify an amount. In exchange, Bush would probably call for a ban on speaking fees and strict limits on the use of campaign funds for office or personal expenses. He might call for an outright ban on political-action committees that are connected to labor or business groups. To head off a congressional outcry about the lost sources of campaign funds, the President may propose raising the $1,000 limit on individual political contributions to candidates...
...symbolic than substantive, the balloting shattered British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's image of invincibility last week. Her Conservative Party suffered its first national defeat in nearly 15 years, capturing only 34.7% of the vote and losing 13 of its 45 European Parliament seats. By contrast, the left- leaning Labor Party totted up 40.2%, stirring dreams among Laborites of ousting Thatcher from power at home...
...Pittston miners worked without a contract for 14 months after the firm demanded cost-cutting changes in work rules and health and pension benefits. Last week United Mine Workers president Richard Trumka called upon other labor unions to support the strike. Speaking at a rally in Charleston, W. Va., attended by leaders of the airline-machinists and communications-workers unions, he said, "It's time that we stood up as a large family and fought back." But so far, it is mostly the miners who are aflame...
...working couples struggle to meet their family responsibilities, they are asking corporate America to lend a hand. Last week AT&T agreed to one of the largest expansions of family benefits ever achieved in labor negotiations. Under a three-year contract covering 160,000 members of its communications and electrical unions, AT&T will increase from six months to one year the parental leave it offers mothers and fathers of newborns. The company will also permit such leaves for the care of ailing relatives...
Most say Bok, a labor law scholar, typically handles a problem as he would a legal case. Colleagues like Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31 describe Bok as a "rationalist philosopher" who shows unusual concern for the structure and consistency of arguments...