Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spring day last year, when many Harvard students demonstrated against the Corporation's decision on South African investments, one Harvard student had to shuttle between the rally and another, very different struggle. On that day, the members of Local 880 of the Massachusetts Hospital Service Workers went out on strike against Otis Hospital in Cambridge. Taking turns on the picket line and at the South Africa rally was one Harvard student who had worked with the union throughout the year, Adair Damman...
Local 880 obtained a charter from the Service Employees International Union on the condition the international branch forego its traditional right to veto a strike vote of the local, Stephanie Van Dyke '79, another member of the CEC, says. The union also stands out in its concern for the rights of patients to good and compassionate health care, as well as the rights of hospital workers, Damman says...
Damman has participated in both field work and office work. She took part in contract negotiations, picketing, strike support work and background research on contracts, as well as door-to-door organizing. Throughout these experiences, the union has consistently maintained its commitments to health care and to its members...
Butch Hobson and George Scott killed the rally with a pop-up and a swinging third strike, though; and the whole mad season came down to Gossage versus the heart of the Red Sox lineup in the bottom of the ninth...
...least one group of citizens is faring well: the customers of prostitutes. Under a law that took effect shortly after the pooper-scooper statute, the names of hookers' patrons are available to the press whenever the vice squad strikes. Frets Captain Eugene Brozio at Manhattan's Midtown North precinct house: "To get any impact on the Johns, you need widespread publicity, and thanks to the strike we're not getting...