Word: stewards
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Crockett and Bonislawski are no longer involved with HUERA, Crockett having lost the presidential election to former shop steward Edward Gardin and Bonislawski having quit. Gardin was one of the principals in last year's union's troubles--it was his treatment at a grievance proceeding that led to the unfair labor complaint being filed...
Aided by an able chief shop steward, Jim Burke, and Edward B. Childs, former chief shop steward and an experienced organizer, Local 26 is already beginning to map out strategies for next fall's contract talks. "We're getting a negotiating team together and holding shop-steward seminars," says Bozzotto, who this summer won a vastly improved contract for workers at Boston's Harvard Club...
Salvucci's union suffered the heaviest job losses and was the last to sign the agreement. Its members were persuaded in part by the magnanimous example of Shop Steward Jim Healy, 30, a Bulletin pressman for 13 years. In a brief, impassioned plea, Healy urged the membership to ratify the agreement, though it meant his own dismissal. The pressmen had been especially reluctant to sign because their contract, unlike those of the other unions, contains a "uniformity clause" that could allow concessions granted to the Bulletin to be extended to Philadelphia's Inquirer and Daily News...
...turned our attention to getting clear the boat, the only boat left us, with which we could expect to escape. We succeeded in getting her out without injury, although the ship was waterlogged and fast falling upon her side. In the meantime the steward had twice entered the cabin and at his peril had brought out the trunks of the Captain and mate and also two quadrants and two of Bowdiches Practical Navigators. These, with the two compasses taken from the binnacle, was all that we had an opportunity of getting into the boat, and get in ourselves, when...
...earlier West, scenes by the likes of Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and Charles Russell. Reagan wants the Western feel with class. Curiously, Reagan balances this new formality with his own habit of doing things himself. The sight of Lyndon Johnson sticking out his hand and a hovering steward thrusting in a fresh drink is still remembered around the White House. Reagan gets his own glass of water, when he can. "In the White House there is a fellow there to throw the logs on the fire," he complained last week, talking about why he does his own chores...