Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excitement, the media cynicism, the physical groanings-at-the-seams, one could strike off alone and explore the town and countryside, finding the various unadorned sites of Jimmy's life and early work. A polite visitor with an anxiety-dispelling Southern accent could even find and talk at relaxed length with members of the presidential family. In a three-day visit-during Christmas rush at that-I had cordial and substantial meetings with Alton Carter (Jimmy's uncle and keeper of the family tales, possessed of an excellent narrative tongue and the sweet will to use it); Gloria...
...since the General Strike of 1926 have so many British trade unionists been pulled off their jobs in quest of pay hikes. For the third straight week, a strike by 80,000 truck drivers slowed trade and industry to a near standstill. Locomotive drivers repeated crippling one-day work stoppages that forced hundreds of thousands of commuters into their cars and onto highways made treacherous by a blanket of snow. Still more troubles loomed as London's subway workers considered striking this week. Four public employees unions, whose 1.5 million members include nursery attendants, teachers, hospital workers and crematory...
...opinion of our lawyers that the faculty are unfairly holding a strike over our heads unless we share managerial power with them," Ted Frederickson, spokesman for the university, said yesterday. He added that "the National Labor Relations Act requires employers and unions to bargain over issues such as wages and hours, but not over managerial power...
...faculty approved a series of job actions at a meeting January 25, calling for a teach-in on February 14, boycott of classes on March 20 and 21, and an indefinite strike of classes starting April 4, unless an agreement is reached...
Frederickson said the university had offered its faculty a 6.3-per-cent wage increase for next year and a 5-per-cent increase for each of the two succeeding years, but then rescinded the offer when the faculty voted Jan. 25 to consider the possibility of a strike...