Word: rubbers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that lately has been turning out more peaceful, and no more Inflationary, than might have been expected. It started badly: the Teamsters in April settled a three-day strike with a contract that might raise wages and benefits a high 33% over the next three years. Some 60,000 rubber workers hit the bricks in late April and are still out; an eventual settlement is bound to be costly...
...archives she wrote me that she came across a bit of a problem with documents and the archivist: "Pretty soon the man comes tottering back wiping cobwebs off a sort of cardboard box with hinges. Inside are piles of documents from the 1400s coated with dust and encased in rubber bands, bits of strings, etc. As you look through them the edges fall off--the archivist says 'eh beh' (so?) and shrugs. I couldn't get them all back in the cardboard box so he came and helped, that is, he jammed them all in and jammed the cover...
...members to provide some benefits for workers who might hit the bricks later at other companies. That letdown illustrates a major reason why the strike has had no impact: dissension within the union. Some 40% to 45% of the nation's tire production continues, partly because General Tire & Rubber Co. is not on strike. When U.R.W. President Peter Bommarito asked the General Tire local in Akron to join the walkout, the local refused...
Long and Bitter. None of this means that the strike should not be taken seriously. The rubber workers, who now average $5.50 an hour, are seeking an extra $1.65 to bring them up to the present standard of auto workers. Besides that, they want an unlimited cost-of-living adjustment provision to keep wages from being eroded by inflation. And they seem determined to hold out until their strike hurts, as it eventually will. Their walkout highlights a severe problem for the whole nation: even in a basic industry, it takes a very long and bitter strike to get results...
With shirtsleeves rolled up and rubber boots protecting his feet, the grey-haired man bent like a peasant to the task of planting rice shoots in the flooded paddy. That might seem plebeian labor for an emperor, but Hirohito of Japan, 75, has always shown deep sympathy for the farming millions of his subjects, and made it a royal duty to take a personal part in opening the rice-planting season. Come fall, the monarch will return to the same paddy in the imperial palace compound and harvest a crop of about 300 lbs., part of it destined...