Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House version of the bill, however, includes a tax credit for parents of students in private and parochial elementary and secondary schools. The Senate removed this provision from its version of the credit in the midst of criticism that it would strike a death-blow to the already shaky public school systems and that a credit for parochial school tuition was possibly unconstitutional...
...under the NLRA in the 1974 Health Care Act Amendments, any legal battle has helped to set precedents by which to judge hospital labor disputes. One legal issue centered around the intent of Congress in including hospitals under the NLRA. The hospital argued that Congress, because it enacted special strike provisions for hospital employees and evidenced concern for the special health care function of hospitals, other labor precedents set by the NLRB did not apply. The Board, however, while agreeing that hospitals are special cases, believed the burden of proof rested on the hospital to demonstrate special circumstances surrounding...
...face of the four-week-old New York newspaper strike, The Crimson has compiled a page of national and international news. We will continue to offer an expanded wire service until times are back to normal...
...many New Yorkers, the dispute that led to this year's walkout remained only dimly understood. Though all ten of the city's newspaper unions are by now either officially on strike or honoring the picket lines, the focus of the fracas is a once mighty, now waning band of newsprint-hatted yeomen, the pressmen. Not to be confused with printers, who set the type?and whose ranks have been thinned by automation in recent years ?pressmen are the strong-limbed fellows who start, stop, replate, ink, wipe and otherwise keep the presses rolling. Automation has not much altered...
...understatement of the year, Chaikin, an admirer of Meany, ruefully concedes that the AFL-CIO boss turns people off because, "he does not have the personality of an ever-smiling, ever-effusive, warm, merry-appearing man." One university expert on labor adds that Meany's performances on TV "must strike the 24-year-olds, a quarter of whom are college-educated, as something out of prehistoric ages...