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...called “no strike?? clauses are a common feature of labor contracts these days. Harvard has no strike clauses in almost all its labor contracts, according to the University’s chief labor negotiator David Jones. The SEIU blanket contract for Massachusetts also has a provision against striking during the term of the contract...
Bush reasons that the world has changed since the 1972 treaty was signed. The treaty had relied for deterrence on the absence of missile defenses—and thus a guarantee of mutual destruction after any first strike??to keep the peace between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. But in an age when dictators like Saddam Hussein could obtain nuclear weapons, a rogue state could launch an attack and might just be crazy enough to accept the horrible consequences. Bush’s arguments on those grounds, however, fall flat. Most terrorists or rogue states lack...
...however, have reaped large rewards. In the spring of 1999 Berkeley students staged an eight-day hunger strike in which 100 people were arrested in order to save their ethnic studies department. The costs were high—five students were put on trial for their activities during the strike??but their demands were...
...effects of the strike??and how long it lasts—remain to be seen. But hopefully, by the time we visit Lonergan’s Bar again the strike will be settled, 147 people in Co Louth will still have jobs and stout will be flowing from the taps. Guinness that is brewed, poured and served in the nation of its birth is a unique nectar, and my mother deserves at least one more half-pint...
...expire on May 1 and June 30, respectively. These 14,000 WGA members and 135,000 SAG members constitute the brains and the brawn (so to speak) of television and film in the United States. If their contracts expire before a settlement is reached, the unions will go on strike??leaving movie theaters nationwide in the lurch and turning the television test pattern into the latest ingenue...