Word: labors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...galaxy of left-wing causes has dissipated: Backers of affirmative action and abortion rights, gay activists and Greens, feminists and labor leaders have little to say to each other, still less to do for one another...
...days later, Debra Barton went to Alabama to spend Labor Day weekend with her mother in a lakeside trailer. Barton stayed home with their children Mychelle and Matthew--or at least that was what he told the authorities. By the end of the weekend, the bodies of Debra Barton and her mother Eloise Spivey were found in a trailer, hacked to death by an axlike tool that police never recovered...
What does it take to become an outlaw in China? Promote democracy, organize an illicit labor union--or spend an early-morning hour in a park moving your hands around the shape of an imaginary wheel...
...labor dispute first began when Everett's workers started working at Harvard and learned that unionized painters working on the same projects were earning additional benefits and between $5 and $8 more per hour, according to Laughlin. After learning of the wage disparity, all 24 of the workers signed cards indicating that they wanted to join a union themselves...
Harvard officials responded by claiming that the University is not permitted to intervene in a private labor dispute between another firm and its employees...