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Harvard graduate faculty rank first in the nation in the Classics. Philosophy and Spanish Departments, according to a widely circulated national survey released this week of doctoral humanities programs...
...refusing to grant immediate pay hikes two weeks ago, Chrysler Corp. had almost dared its workers to strike. A walkout could easily bankrupt the sputtering company, but Chairman Lee lacocca was gambling that the rank and file would not take that risk. When the showdown ballot came last week, lacocca won his bet, at least temporarily. By a tally of 70% to 30%, the workers voted to stay on the job and postpone negotiations on a new contract until January. That strategy had been pushed by United Automobile Workers President Douglas Fraser, who reasoned that an improved U.S. economy...
HANOVER. N.H- If put on a In, playing a sever match on a cold and rainy Saturday morning on a postage stamp field in the hills of New Hamperire might rank as one of the meins taxing of all anxieties endeavors. And for the faint half of their 2-0 win nest Dartmouth, the members of the Harvard men's soccer team looked like they would place it at the top of that list...
...agreement, which negotiators reached on Sept. 16, was turned down by rank-and-file members largely because it lacked a guaranteed salary increase. Chrysler workers have gone two years without a pay boost of any kind, and they now make about $2.50 an hour less than their counterparts at Ford and General Motors. Instead of granting an immediate raise, however, the rejected pact called for wage hikes tied to future Chrysler profits. The settlement would also have restored a cost of living adjustment that would have taken effect in December and added about 500 an hour to the average worker...
...keeping its workers in line if they believe that they're not getting a fair share of the higher profits--or that companies aren't creating enough new jobs with the surplus money. And that is the lesson of the Chrysler contract rejection; in democratic unions like the UAW, rank and file discontent inevitably comes boiling to the surface...