Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LAST WEEK, tensions erupted once more between the University and members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees' Union. The kitchen workers angrily rejected Harvard's latest contract offer, authorizing their union negotiators to call a strike if the University refuses to be more flexible at the bargaining table...
...governments now in power in many of those countries have already set up strong military establishments that would normally work with conservative interests to resist local efforts at revolution, Skocpol said...
...South Africa, the local population would probably continue to endure the present oppressive system for a long time, unless military or economic pressure from outside countries accelerates the breakdown of the government, Skocpol said...
Madeleine Lourie, a staff worker for Local 880, agrees with the students' view. "It's been important and good for the union to have students working, but it is just as good for the student -- it's a real education for them. They leave the union with a sense of union work and how important it is," she says...
...most important results of her work at Local 880, Damman says, was "talking and getting to know people who are completely different from the people I know here." "We've seen a change in people on the committee," Van Dyke says. One of their committee members is a physicist who, after some time working on the committee, came to her and said, "This is the kind of thing I never come into contact with, and I needed...