Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several historians have urged the chair of the Schlesinger Library to use her influence within the Knight-Ridder Publishing company to end a year-long strike at the Detroit Free Press, a Knight-Ridder subsidiary...
...weeks ago, 34 historians sent a public letter to Joan Ridder Challinor, chair of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women and member of the board of directors of Knight Ridder, urging her to help settle the strike...
Workers at the Detroit Free Press went on strike more than 11 months ago. Over 2,000 workers are still on strike, protesting such changes as the institution of individual merit pay and a cap to overtime...
When asked about the strike, Challinor state emphatically: "I support the company fully...
...letter was not meant to threaten Challinor, Kessler-Harris said, but simply to request that as a woman in a dual capacity, Challinor rethink the issues related to the strike...