Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long-distance rigs were barreling along U.S. highways last week in near normal numbers. The powerful Teamsters union and the trucking industry had agreed on a new master contract, ending a ten-day strike and lockout that drastically curtailed transportation of goods and threatened many manufacturing industries. In all, the union and the industry estimate that the contract will give 270,000 drivers and warehouse workers an increase of more than 30% in wages and fringe benefits over three years. That is well above the Carter Administration's wage-guideline limit of 7% a year. But the Council...
...conservative Democrat who served as the Administration's envoy to the business community, Sawyer denounced stringent antitrust legislation and advocated lower corporate taxes and a balanced budget. He found himself severely tested in 1952, when Truman seized the steel industry in order to avert a strike. The President ordered Sawyer to administer the mills and grant workers and owners wage and price increases. Unhappy with the seizure, Sawyer acted only when assured of the order in writing. Resigning his post after Eisenhower's election, he returned to Ohio and his law practice, continuing to hold firm his belief...
...politician must be representative -and that means he must be predictable. He must be chosen because his general circle of thought is known. He is not likely to depart too markedly from that agreed-on area of thinking. If he were startlingly novel in his approach, liable to strike off on his own, capable of bold invention, unafraid of its consequences, only an idiot would ask him to represent the mass of common...
...Cambridge tenant organizer told students Saturday that Harvard's expansion into Cambridge, an issue in the 1969 student strike, is at least as big a problem today...
...workshops were part of the weekend-long commemoration of the 1969 strike. Other activities included panel discussions Saturday on "Organizing for the Eighties" and the future of Afro-American Studies...