Word: rep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rep. Barber V. Conable (R-N.Y.) and Clay T. Whitehead, director of the U.S. Office of Telecommunications Policy, are among ten newly appointed fellows at the Institute of Politics...
They stood in line as usual, waiting a little longer than usual to be let in. While in line the old union rep came around to say that the contract was signed, that he had settled for the same 17 per cent cut as the last two years, for another three years...
...back to work all the vendors went, confident that Nilon would now negotiate with a new union rep, confident that the issues would be met. This confidence continued right through the homestand...
...didn't take long for Nilon to greet the vendors next morning with more deals of going back to work and negotiating later. The union rep arrived with a high card from the mythical local's down town office, but he didn't play his hand until after Nilon spoke. Nilon immediately began threatening everyone with pink slips and court injunctions. Then the union rep took over and introduced his friend from downtown, who startlingly declared that he was against the strike, and it was the vendor's tough luck if Nilon fired people. Of course, he insisted...
...didn't take long for the word to get out that the union's recently elected union rep--who was more militant than the old rep--was no longer working, having been fired sometime during the Astro series...