Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increase, a COLA clause and improvements in pension and insurance plans. Some tiremakers, however, suffered from falling profits in 1975 and will find it hard to agree to the U.R.W. package. President Peter Bommarito may lose control of his union if the new contract is found wanting by the membership. The only deterrent to a long strike is the paltry $5.5 million balance in the union's strike fund; the money could run out in as little as a month...
...divinity degree went into church jobs or further study of religion; now less than half do. A surprising number simply drop out of organized religion-a defection that may reflect loss of faith and the shrinkage of the job market as the liberal Protestant churches continue their decline in membership. (Since 1966 the United Methodist, United Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches and the United Church of Christ have lost a total of 2.4 million members.) Meanwhile, the more conservative independent Evangelical schools and church-run seminaries are growing in size and prestige, though the report finds that the latter...
POWERS SAYS the University is pursuing a valuable institutional objective by attempting to force clerical and technical employees in the Med area to seek membership in a larger, university-wide bargaining unit. "If we don't achieve central unionization under a centralized personnel policy," he explains, "then we won't be able to avoid deficits, or to operate at all effectively...
...love and refuge in the arms of old family friend Pastor Manders. But those arms are too busy embracing the constraints of nineteenth century society to make room for a tearful would-be adultress, so Manders sends Helene right back to the Captain with a firm reproach and charter membership in the Cult of True Womanhood...
...mining efficiency. The industry has also been plagued in the past two years by hundreds of wildcat strikes. Coal executives say the stoppages prove that United Mine Workers President Arnold Miller is not as good a leader as he is a negotiator. In 1974 he won his union (current membership: 135,000) a healthy contract-the average wage is $50 a day before overtime-but he still cannot keep his men in line. Miller loyalists argue that the industry is to blame. "When the companies push hard for production," says one union man, "they wind up killing people." He means...