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...steward brings whisky and soda as Amin reflects on his first year in office. "Every day has been like a year," he says. "Events have not made it easy on me. I've had important responsibilities before, as an M.P. and a member of the [Phalange] party politburo. Then there was the war between the Lebanese militias and the Palestinians." He pauses and runs his hand through his glossy black hair. Like many Lebanese Christians, the President does not consider that Lebanon ever had a civil war. He mentions two great disasters of the 1975-76 war, the destruction...
Craig Darby, chief steward for Local 1180 of the United Electrical Workers, charged, "It has been open season on workers who support the union" since organizing efforts began in 1978 at Litton's transplanted (from Minneapolis) microwave-oven plant in Sioux Falls, S. Dak. After workers voted in the union, Darby charged, Litton canceled a February pay raise, took away a dozen paid sick days and began a harsh new absentee policy that led to dozens of firings. "I don't understand," said Darby, "why a Litton can just laugh...
Edward B. Childes, a shop steward at the Adams House dining hall, said earlier this week that students should be entitled to sick days and pay on union holidays, for which they are not currently eligible. James H. Neil, a shop steward at Lowell, added that dining hall managers can currently send students home if they are not needed on a day they are scheduled to work
...very demanding, and she gets into a lot of mental concentration-imagery training. For example, if she doesn't feel we're playing our best in practice, she'll ask us to take a few minutes, close our eyes, and think of ourselves doing the drills at our best," Steward explains...
...work more closely with the rank and file was inspired in part by an employee meeting last Tuesday at which Phillip Voight. Yale University's chief steward, out lined the negotiating strategy that he said helped Yale food service workers win numerous wage and benefit concessions...