Word: mine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contract had discouraged other unions from breaking the wage-restraint agreement. With 1.9 million members, the TGWU is the largest single union within the umbrella-like Trades Union Congress, which ostensibly represents organized labor in Britain. Now other major unions are demanding release from the agreement. At the mine workers' union convention in Tynemouth last week, delegates representing 262,000 members voted to demand raises by Nov. 1. The 1.3 million-member engineers' union has also voted against further wage restraints, and a host of smaller unions are expected to follow suit, creating a sudden and inflationary wage...
...liking for "natural" colors, ones that look as though they have been extracted directly from the world's surface: ocher, black, white and the exquisite range of blues, "Motherwell blue," as promptly identifiable as Braque brown or Matisse pink. "If there is a blue that I might call mine," says Motherwell, "it is simply a blue that feels warm, something that cannot be accounted for chemically or technically but only as a state of mind." This blue has literary prototypes, embedded in Motherwell's reading of French verse. It is Mallarmé's azur, the color...
...plot summary goes against the grain of this poorly-plotted movie; your guess is as good as mine--I doubt whether even the movie makers agreed (or cared) about what was going on. No one explains how an ex-banker turns into a talented teamster, or why the oil company does not simply fly some explosives from the States (no air trip could be more dangerously turbulent than the truck ride). What is certain is that for the rest of this long movie we watch two trucks with four truck drivers negotiate some difficult roads in the rain. Along...
Myself, I make $8,400 a year and in exchange I am expected to be loyal, obedient, circumspect and addicted to unpaid overtime. A former boss of mine told me, in a moment of undue confidence, that a divorced woman with a child is the ideal employee; she can't quit and she can't complain...
...members of the strife-ridden United Mine Workers voted, last week for a president, the overriding hope was that the election would bring an end to the vicious internal bickering that has plagued the union for the past decade. Instead, the outcome of the three-way race seemed certain to aggravate the tension. The final tally will not be completed until July, but according to unofficial results, President Arnold Miller squeaked to a second five-year term with 40% of the vote. His archrival, Lee Roy Patterson, an influential member of the union's 21-member executive board, took...