Word: sanitationmen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sanitationmen: "Even to this day, you are a second-class citizen, though I don't believe...
...including grievance procedures, a system of mer it promotions and a 9% pay hike. Mayor Henry Loeb, who bitterly branded the strike illegal when it began ten weeks ago, even agreed to a dues checkoff; under a face-saving scheme, a credit union will collect the money for the sanitationmen's treasury...
...papers off guard. Memphis, as they boasted perhaps too often, had never had a serious racial disturbance. Partly because of this, the papers were rattled when it finally occurred. At first they tried to portray it as simply a labor issue, though the fact that 95% of the sanitationmen are Negroes obviously gave it a racial complexion. They covered the strike with reasonable thoroughness but tended to play up acts of violence. They regularly attacked King, saying he had no business in Memphis. They ignored Negro militants leading the strike; for a while, the Commercial Appeal even banned Lawson...
...itation bill, with the Republican-controlled senate even more vehement in its opposition than the Democratic assembly. The legislative leaders handed the dispute back to Lindsay instead, on condition that he resume bargaining with the union. And at week's end the city and the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association agreed to submit the dispute to binding arbitration, with a Rockefeller aide, Vincent McDonnell, serving as arbitrator...
...occur at an awkward time for him. He undoubtedly won further sympathy from labor by refusing to break a strike, but to get his own party's nomination, he needs support from the Republican right-the very segment that would be most offended by his coddling of the sanitationmen's union. Richard Nixon, campaigning in New Hampshire, drew fervent crowd response by siding with Lindsay. "Breaking the law of the state," Nixon declared, "cannot and must not be rewarded." Ronald Reagan observed that Rockefeller was "treading on thin ice." Even George Romney, the beneficiary of Rockefeller...