Word: quota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demanded a 20 per cent quota of minority-group workers on Harvard construction sites. "For each day Harvard delays in meeting the 20 per cent demand, that percentage should go up. That is the price Harvard must pay for having benefited from the exploitation of black people," the statement said...
...proposal to have a minimum quota of minority workers would unfairly discriminate against white workers...
...University will agree to a quota of 9.3 per cent (based on the presumed proportion of black and third-world residents of Boston and Cambridge...
...moral grounds. Thus, the University's assertion that 9.3 per cent is a "correct" figure shows not only at best sloppy use of data, but also shows a typical lack of sensitivity to black demands at Harvard and in the world. Were Harvard truly interested in meeting such a quota, moreover, they would acknowledge the necessity of meeting related OBU demands as well: black workers can never compete for available jobs unless job agencies in the black community are given detailed notice of openings at the same time such notice is given to white unions; and unless there is present...
Yesterday was the second time in a week that OBU has moved into University Hall to dramatize its demands for a 20 per cent quota of non-white workers on all Harvard construction projects and equal pay for painters helpers...