Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President's new Camp David state of confidence, he was emboldened to strike out more vigorously against the No. 1 domestic issue, inflation. He told a press conference last Thursday that "the time for wasteful spending is over" and pledged to cut as much as possible from the fiscal 1980 federal budget, which will be introduced in January. Especially vulnerable are some of the programs Carter has pushed to combat unemployment. One example: the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act, which will cost $11.3 billion in fiscal 1979, will probably be trimmed, partly because it has fallen short...
Union members had previously authorized their leaders to call a strike, although that threat never materialized...
LAST WEEK, tensions erupted once more between the University and members of Local 26 of the Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Employees' Union. The kitchen workers angrily rejected Harvard's latest contract offer, authorizing their union negotiators to call a strike if the University refuses to be more flexible at the bargaining table...
Harvard's negotiators have held to a hard line throughout the contract talks this spring and summer, refusing to bend on most issues. Last week's strike vote was as much a bargaining tool as an expression of their anger and discontent with the University's intransigence. The kitchen workers are meeting this week to spell out the terms they would like to see in a renegotiated contract, but there is little hope that the University will display the flexibility that most of the workers hope for and Harvard has made every effort to discourage them. The University's chief...
...Crimson controlled play for much of the second half but could not strike paydirt until Tom Barber took a fine centering pass from Rich Yu and fired it into...