Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Students at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) returned to classes from spring vacation yesterday, after negotiations between the faculty and administration averted yesterday's planned faculty strike...
Robert Jungles, president of the Faculty Association, said last night the faculty called off the strike yesterday at 3 a.m., after 18 hours of negotiation resulted in an agreement on the two most controversial issues of tenure and wages...
...avoiding a nationwide strike and exempting military and medical supplies, the union obviously hoped to thwart any move to impose an 80-day cooling-off period under the Taft-Hartley Act. To get a court order under the law, the President must show that a strike will endanger the nation's health or safety...
...signing touched off mass demonstrations. Half a million Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad, while demonstrators in Damascus carried black flags and banners denouncing the Egyptian "treason." In west Beirut, shops were closed in protest. In the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian residents went on strike, businesses were shut down for the day and schools were ordered closed for another week by the military government. Bethlehem Mayor Elias Freij declared the occasion "a day of shame for Begin, Sadat and Carter," and Ramallah Mayor Kharem Khalef called it "a day of mourning in the history...
Then came Britain's winter of discontent, in which a wave of strikes badly tarnished Labor's image as the only party capable of dealing with the powerful trade unions. The strikes took on a personal note for Britons, as garbage piled up in the streets, and schools and hospitals in many cities either shut down or operated part-time; in an action that offended the country's sense of decency and fair play, ambulance drivers went on strike, putting life itself at risk. By the end of a nasty winter, Callaghan's popularity had been...