Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last Friday the union's hopes received a major setback. The NLRB granted a postponement of the trial to January 5. Cambion has asked for a settlement of the charges and is now assuring the union and the NLRB that it is willing to bargain...
...faith, by rejecting even their lowest-level wage demands, and by simply refusing to negotiate until the union representing the 60 striking workers agreed in advance to accept the university wage offer. Because of administration's anti-union, anti-worker stance, the workers were forced to accept a wage settlement and back-to-work conditions considerably less favorable than those they had hoped for. Three months of picketing, with unprecedented student and faculty support, were rendered meaningless...
...wage settlement actually reached--a six per cent wage increase coupled with a $100 bonus--is pitifully inadequate and does not even cover the rate of nationwide price inflation. It represents a figure rejected by the union during last year's contract negotiations, and was accepted only because the university had threatened the workers with "permanent replacement" if they did not immediately return to their jobs...
...compared the relocation of black South Africans into "homeland" territories with poor living conditions to the settlement of American Indians on reservations in this country...
...army, many of its leaders have been arrested. And most of the members abandoned the movement when they discovered the Syrians' real intentions. The PLO and its leader, Yasser Arafat, have emerged victorious in their power struggle against the Palestinian "rejection front" --a front that opposes any kind of settlement with Israel and strives for the total destruction of that nation as a condition for the creation of a Palestinian state...