Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union appears less satisified with the contract than the University, for Costello added, "Feelings were extremely high among the men--as in every contract, everyone wasn't happy." He said, however, the union could not have held out for better terms. "We didn't want to further hurt the membership" by prolonging the negotiations, he added...
...University," share a common interest which is best served by the actions of a benevolent vanguard group within the community--the Faculty/administration. Hence in the core debate the faculty proponents tried to blunt student opposition by continual references to the "community of educated men," for which the criteria of membership, of course, could best be defined only by the Faculty. In the Loeb coup, the Faculty reminded the students of the common goal to provide good theater, ignoring the need to develop good student theater...
...with an axe handle at the beginning of the movie). Instead, Stallone's Johnny Kovak and Best Friend Abe Belkin (David Huffman), canned from their first factory jobs for union agitation, are tapped as organizers--on a commission basis--for their F.I.S.T. local, and gradually build the union's membership through the use of friendly spiels and free passes to Rocky. Stallone predicates his rise to success within F.I.S.T. (F.I.S.T.??) upon his refusal to use strongarm tactics within the union's ranks, and his adoption of forceful tactics against management instead, in defiance of the "fatcat" union leadership in Washington...
...from the recently disenchanted (and just murdered) Abe, one major chunk of the committee's case rests on the report of the bludgeoning. The rest of the questioning deals with the relationship which Kovak's Teamster-clones have enjoyed with the Mafia during the union's meteoric climb in membership, a relationship which entangles the former Lord of Flatbush in a scandal the magnitude and significance of which he cannot quite grasp...
...believe that Stallone's rise to power in the union is somehow grounded in his unique persuasive rhetorical abilities. One problem, however: like Stallone's Rocky, Stallone's Kovak can't really talk. He does, however, mumble a lot, and mumble in convincing fashion, as the union's membership swells to several million under his leadership. Always attuned to the needs of the rank-and-file, Stallone is also aware of the importance of "push," and consequently falls into bad company: he inadvertently sells his soul to the Mafia (in the guise of mobster Babe Milano, played in sleazy enough...