Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...funds for those well-paid administrators engaging in the dubious practice of overseeing their adversaries' representation have to come from somewhere, and the most likely target is student tuition dollars. (Last time I checked, there were no restricted funds for bureaucrats who represent both sides in Harvard's labor disputes...
...want the University to engage in fair labor practices, but the fault with the current contract rests with the union's representation, not with the University...
Based on the conditions under which the contract was approved, some of the disgruntled workers from Local 254 have filed a grievance earlier this month with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), asking them it nullify the contract. They are charging that Cathy Conway, their business agent, represented the union in bad faith...
...though nothing will be resolved until after the elections. It has unleashed millions of dollars' worth of its own commercials that accuse the unions of trying to buy control of the House. The G.O.P. hopes to create a backlash against what one of its ads derides as "Big Labor bosses, Big Money, big lies, big liberals." Freshmen are repeating the line like a mantra in their stump speeches...
Fall is normally new-car season in Detroit. But an outbreak of labor strife at General Motors' plants in Canada has cast into doubt the rollout of GM's all-new Chevrolet minivan and other 1997 models. All production was halted in Canada last week after 28,500 members of the Canadian Auto Workers union walked out in a strike that has deprived some U.S. plants of vital parts. Without a settlement, analysts say, the company may have to close its 24 U.S. parts-and-assembly plants by the end of the month...