Word: shops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feel pleased," Alan Balsam, chief shop steward for Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Employees Union--which represents Harvard's nearly 450 kitchen workers--said yesterday, adding, "Our reservations about the contract were negligible...
...contract negotiations began June 3, the same day Harvard announced it was suspending three shop stewards--including Balsam--for their roles in a May lunch-hour walkout. That action followed a dispute between Balsam and the manager of the College Dining Hall over the serving of hamburgers...
...latter two items emerged largely as a result of the dispute surrounding the suspension of Radcliffe dining hall shop steward Sherman Holcombe last February. Holcombe's suspension--which the University later lifted--raised serious questions concerning the fairness of the University's internal employee grievance process...
...Connor has since died -and so has Birmingham's bitterness. It is significant in the contemporary South that Alabama's largest city (pop. 295,686) has become a model of Southern race relations. Legally, everything is integrated; blacks, who make up 40% of the population, work and shop and dine freely downtown. The only trace of the old "colored" fountains is scars on the walls where they were removed. No serious racial incident has occurred since the First Baptist Church voted six years ago not to admit two blacks as members. Even then, the pastor and many members...
...this rapid industrialization is its variety. Huge textile mills and wood-products plants have long played a key role in the development of the region, and they still do. But recently a host of newcomers, including many well-known corporate giants and some leading foreign firms, have set up shop below the Mason-Dixon line. General Tire built a major tiremaking facility in Charlotte. N.C. Allis-Chalmers moved an electronic-components factory into the New Orleans area. The world's biggest zipper maker, Japanese-owned Y.K.K., has given the Macon, Ga., economy a lift by building its first U.S-based...