Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Medical School, where tution will rise 13 per cent to $6500, Mitchell Adams '66, dean for finance and business at the Med School, blamed surging constructions costs of the Med School's new power plant for the large increase...
Adams said capital expenses for the plant will rise from $450,000 in 1980 to $1.5 million in 1981. The tution increase should help meet a projected budget deficit of $1.5 million, he added...
...results which are of common interest to both the workers and the union on the one hand and the company on the other, that's fine. Such as one, reductions in absenteeism, two, improvement in the quality of the product three, reduced labor turnover four, less discipline in the plant, and five, fewer grievances because complaints are settled right when they arise rather than going through an extended procedure--all of these obviously are of common interest and if we achieve them then both management and the union and the workers have something to gain...
...they can dream up and begin involving the workers on only a voluntary basis. At that point there's no end to the ingenuity of people to decide what they want to do--all the way from deciding what color they want their machinery painted, to laying out a plant, to laying out an operation, to developing the methods, means and processes of manufacturing...
...moving towards the workers and surrendering certain prerogatives which management has historically enjoyed. In every labor contract there is a management rights clause which ways, in effect, that the methods, means and processes of manufacture are solely and exclusively the right of management. It's not easy to get plant managers, superintendents, or foremen to agree to surrender some of those rights to the workers. They are fearful that there will be an erosion of their authority within the plant...