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...odds-makers, one important precedent is the NLRB decision in August to deny the bid by 11 mail workers to join the Harvard printer's trade union, Local 16b of the Graphic Arts International Union. In that decision, the NLRB hearing officer endorsed the Harvard administration's argument that the 11 service employees could only join a University-wide union of clerical workers, because all clerical workers perform similar jobs at the same levels of technical expertise...
...elderly printer stood in a packed Manhattan hall last week and regaled his colleagues with an off-key rendition of After You've Gone. The performance was a bittersweet joke, for members of New York's Typographical Union No. 6 were voting, with white marbles or black, on an innovative eleven-year contract that will radically shrink one of the nation's oldest and most powerful craft union locals. The white marbles outnumbered the black by an overwhelming 1,009 to 41, thus giving the New York Times and the Daily News the right to fully automate...
...Pattern. It was finally time to compromise, and the generous terms established in New York may set a pattern for a few other cities where old methods are still in use. In exchange for allowing automation and abandoning featherbedding, no printer presently employed will be dismissed, even if there is no work at all for him to do. In addition to immediate raises of about $40 a week, yearly 3% salary hikes plus cost of living increments, members of Local 6 (average age: 56) will receive a $2,500 bonus if they retire during the next six months...
Chavez was unavailable for comment yesterday, but UFW sources said that his appearance on the printer's picket line would not be unusual...
...Beecher had it easy as a poet. He became a printer in order to publish his own rejected verses. These poems may lack finish; they do not lack authority. "Strength," as Beecher himself points out, "is a matter of the made-up mind." Now Visiting Scholar at Duke, he is at work on his autobiography. It should be worth anticipating. A lover of American character-the last man who would still dare speak for the People-Beecher is a character himself, perhaps his own best poem...