Word: local
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreement at first, at week's end they seemed to regard it as better than its two predeces sors. (The first was rejected by the bargaining council on Feb. 10; the second was voted down 2 to 1 by the miners on March 5.) Still, many local leaders cautiously gave the latest contract proposal only a fifty-fifty chance of being approved...
...University made two proposals to the union Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, but James P. Costello, general agent for Local 40, said the union membership rejected both offers in early-morning meetings...
That's the answer the members of Carpenter's Local 40 had for Harvard this week when administrators in the Department of Buildings and Grounds (B&G)--maintaining they had no work for the carpenters--reassigned five union members to different jobs. The carpenters told Harvard what to do with the reassignments, and promptly went out on strike--triggering a chain reaction among all Harvard employees in the building trades...
...other industries for a long time to come. The coal strike is unique in that it is the first industry-wide walk-out in the post-war era in which what have been heretofore regarded as "fringe" benefits--health-and-pension plans, the right to strike at a local level if unsafe conditions are involved--figure as prominent issues. To end arbitrarily a strike in which conditions of the workplace and health-and-pension issues occupy the center stage would not only be wrong, and perhaps hamper workers in other industries--but to end unsuccessfully a strike in what...