Word: pressmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John A. Pilomeno, secretary-treasurer of Local 300, said last week the 25 union pressmen and lithographers at the University Printing Office will ask Harvard to reduce their work week from 40 hours to the 35-hour work week shared by all other non-salaried Harvard employees...
...members of the AFL-CIO affiliated union, who work as lithographers, pressmen and cold type compositors at the Harvard University Printing Office, will negotiate for the two-year contract next month. Their present contract expires November...
...union will also ask Harvard to include dental coverage as part of the medical benefits package for the pressmen and other graphics workers...
...paper's newsroom one afternoon last week and delivered the brutal message: after 110 years of business, the Montreal Star (circ. 114,000) had published its last edition. The evening daily had lost $14.6 million and 50,000 readers as the result of a bitter eight-month pressmen's strike that ended in February. So the owner, F.P. Publications (the Toronto Globe and Mail and six other Canadian dailies), decided that with the balance sheet red and the broadsheet unread, the Star was better off dead...
...improvement program to meet the challenge of the reinvigorated Washington Star. He will also soon face another telling trial: the Post's unions are scheduled to negotiate new contracts this year, for the first time since Mrs. Graham won her reputation for toughness by taking, and breaking, a pressmen's strike...