Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...library strike, which began in late August, each day seems to move further from a settlement. The workers are demanding pay increases of nearly 10 per cent; Brown's latest wage offer would give them 6. In addition, the final settlement will be further clouded by conditions of return to work; Brown's current insistence that the 17 non-union workers hired to keep the library open may remain on in full-time jobs promises to complicate the next round of negotiations, which have not yet been scheduled...
...Vise group, as a result, is using the arrests as its trump card is agitating for the settlement of the dispute. Already, the group has organized a 300-student demonstration cum administration building occupation to push for building general amnesty for those arrested, and further plans to stage demonstrations on behalf of the library workers and the arrested students during Brown's upcoming freshman parents' weekend...
...university is wary of a quick settlement with the SEIU on the terms requested by the workers because any pay hike might have to be duplicated for all non-union workers on the campus. "They can't, for obvious reasons, make it look like the union gets better benefits for workers," one union negotiator says...
...Americans seem to think the Rhodesian settlement"--Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian D. Smith last month agreed to a proposal for a two-year transition to black majority rule--"signals a move in that direction for South Africa. You don't realize how strong Vorster is. This is what makes me anxious about Kissinger's settlement; there is nothing that Kissinger got from the Rhodesians that Vorster hasn't wanted for two years. Vorster wants a black government in Rhodesia. Kissinger's settlement, although meant to avert race war, just plays into the hands of the Afrikaaner regime...
Grazing Camels. The basic tactic of China's border policy is the massive settlement of its Han people among the native inhabitants. In Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, the 120,000 Chinese cadres are much in evidence, and the exiled Dalai Lama's Potala Palace is no more than a well-tended cultural relic. Urumchi, the capital of the Sinkiang Uighur autonomous region, has grown from 80,000 people in 1949 to 800,000 today, of whom 60% are Han, only 40% the traditional nomadic peoples-Uighurs, Kazakhs, Kirghiz and Mongols...