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...elected in each shop to hear and act on day-to-day grievances. She is expected to call in the union business agent, the union's representative to the employers, if she cannot resolve a problem with an employer. It is a frustrating and thankless job. Chairladies often feel powerless, and call in the business agent before taking any action. Then they blame the business agent's insensitivity to their complaints and his apparent friendliness with the employer...
...replace those that have been lost and while formulating a University budget for a tight year, the Harvard Administration will exercise an implicit but enormous power. We hope that in exercising it, the Administration will be able to resist its easy inclination to satisfy--at the expense of its powerless constituencies--the financial wants of Harvard's baronial powers...
Until recently, the farmworker has been powerless to improve these conditions. Antiquated conceptions of agriculture--which are now as much an "industry" as any factory assembly line--prevent him from receiving the benefits of labor legislation. When he and his co-workers have tried to organize, they have been intimidated with job loss or violence; or most recently, they have been "organized" against their will and without their voted consent under low-benefit "sweetheart" contracts between the growers and officials of established unions...
Will the 1973 Paris agreements succeed where the 1954 Geneva Accords failed? In many ways, the two agreements are ominously alike. Both provide for a cease-fire to be supervised by a small but relatively powerless international commission; for withdrawal of all foreign troops; and for eventual free elections...
...fast is that our suite, which is always loched, was broken into while we were asleep. We were virtually powerless to do anything to prevent the ensuing situation...