Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting the union membership gave Balsam a check for $175 in appreciation of his organizing efforts. He responded by calling the contract ratification "the greatest moment of my life...
...cook's union has about 550 members, many of whom work part-time. It is Harvard's second largest union in terms of membership...
Stirred Passions. Of course many of the more than 125 items already on the assembly's agenda will stir some passions. Late last week, the General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to request the Security Council to reconsider North and South Viet Nam's applications for U.N. membership-vetoed last summer by the U.S., which has opposed admitting Saigon and Hanoi unless South Korea is also admitted. On the agenda are also the status of the U.N. Command in South Korea and the Cyprus issue -potentially controversial items. But the main focus of the session will be the proper relationship...
...educators did. As Shanker outlined the proposed contract to the union's delegate assembly (which had voted overwhelmingly to strike the week before), he was interrupted with jeers and catcalls of "Sellout." Outside Madison Square Garden, rank-and-file teachers chanted: "Vote no, vote no." The roiled, resentful membership finally ratified the contract by an unenthusiastic vote...
...football players' strike, the third in five years. Like the ineffectual walkouts of 1970 and 1974, last week's action began with high hopes and fizzled for lack of player support. It was a strike whose ingredients must boggle the minds of experienced union men: a divided membership, a union head bargaining in the face of a vote of no confidence, strike votes taken without members' understanding what they were voting on, and a communications network that centered on one player's kitchen phone. By the time the strike sagged and collapsed on Thursday evening, most...