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Today's militant new job actions often come at workplaces that have rarely seen unions before. In one pitched battle last March, 100 registered nurses--some of them grandmothers who never expected to find themselves on picket lines--won a 16% wage increase over 1 3/4 years after a six-month strike against the Catholic-run Mercy Hospital in Port Jervis, New York. Undaunted by the hiring of replacement workers, the nurses, who were members of the National Health and Human Service Employee union, picketed in weather that sometimes sank to -29 degrees C. "I would like to think...
...student-loan program is another potential weak spot for Republicans. As part of their controversial plan for $10.1 billion in education cuts over seven years, they want parents to pay higher interest rates and to eliminate the six-month grace period students have before they must start repaying loans. Those proposals have become a constant theme in speeches by Clinton and town meetings conducted by Democratic Congressmen. Last week, just days after proposing to make colleges pay an administrative fee on government-backed student loans, Republicans were forced to scale back because of the furor that erupted...
...addition, House Republicans have proposed modifying the six-month post-graduation "grace period" for interest rates on student loans...
According to Nixon, reports indicate that the Senate may also try to eliminate the six-month grace period...
Some residents believe the no-growth movement is futile and foolish. Says John Healy, a councilman in Parker: "The mind-set is 'I've got my five acres, so close the door.' " Gordon Mickelson, whose plans to develop 2,900 acres in Broomfield, Colorado, were thwarted by a local six-month suspension of planning hearings, says such measures could have dire consequences. "When you send a message of no growth, you're telling business, 'Don't come here...