Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only results of the congressional action: a Cyprus settlement became more remote than ever, and Ankara brusquely suspended operations at two dozen U.S. military and intelligence-gathering facilities...
Teachers' strikes ended on uncertain notes in two of the nation's largest public school systems last week. In New York, 55,000 teachers returned to their classes with a settlement that left almost everyone unhappy. In Chicago, 27,000 teachers went back to school after the board of education agreed to give them millions of dollars more than it had in its budget...
...even the negotiators were pleased with the contract that ended the New York strike. "Neither side will sing victory songs about this," predicted School Board Vice President Robert Christen. Albert Shanker, president of the 81,000-member United Federation of Teachers called it a settlement that "nobody likes." Certainly few educators did. As Shanker outlined the proposed contract to the union's delegate assembly (which had voted overwhelmingly to strike the week before), he was interrupted with jeers and catcalls of "Sellout." Outside Madison Square Garden, rank-and-file teachers chanted: "Vote no, vote no." The roiled, resentful membership...
Short Day. The settlement made many teachers wonder if the five-day strike was worthwhile. It preserves the official class size at 32 in elementary school, 33 in junior high and 34 in senior high, but it reduces the class day-at six hours and 20 minutes already one of the shortest in any large city-by two 45-minute periods a week. In return for the abbreviated schedule, teachers give up two preparation periods. The board agreed to use the money it "saved" during the strike (by not paying teachers' salaries and by fining them two days...
...like the shorter days either," she added. Stephen Desposito, principal of Intermediate School 59 in Queens, said simply that the board seemed to be working with "funny money" that it might not have. That was a mild way of saying that the union had extracted a dangerous settlement from a city on the verge of bankruptcy...