Word: member
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O. has supported so many boycotts by member unions against employers that last summer President George Meany made a little joke about it. A loyal unionist's ultimate treason, he said, would be to eat grapes while flying over West Virginia in a National Airlines plane burning Shell gasoline. At that time, for various reasons, unions were battling against National, Shell, the growers of California table grapes and the state of West Virginia. But the A.F.L.-C.I.O. had never organized a boycott on its own-until last week. Then, on the first day of the Christmas shopping season...
...Sweden's National Trade Union Confederation, or Lands-organisation, is "to give due consideration to the effect of wage developments on the national economy." Sweden's powerful LO represents one worker in every two, and Denmark's LO also has every second worker as a member; Norway's encompasses a third of all breadwinners. Management groups are equally strong, well-organized-and enlightened. Corporations provide quite a few fringe benefits. Oslo's Tandbergs Radiofabrikk, for instance, supplies a gym for its employees and holds parties for them, including one near Christmas for their children...
...Defense Department may very well try to thwart the intent of this law-i.e., limiting the military's influence in American society-by claiming that even basic research is directly related to "a specific military function." John Womack Jr. 59, assistant professor of History and a member of the anti-Project minority on the Brooks subcommittee, said Wednesday that Harvard involvement in the Project "may amount to collusion" with the Defense Department in circumventing Section...
...also a member of the first college soccer team in the U.S. when he played at Haverford...
...letter from a Kent faculty member advised me to burn my Kent newspaper clippings so my friends won't find out that I've become a solid member of the establishment at the age of 18," Schell said...