Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Under the union's alleged tenure "running the club," the Harvard Club enjoyed substantial increases in membership and revenue, and the club became "relatively prosperous" in the last few years, according to an independent audit commissioned by management and released before the strike...
...while Ms. Armstrong admitted that the club has incurred large legal fees because of the strike, she may have fibbed a little when she said it is operating on a more economical basis because it has not had to obey union pay rules...
...truth is that management was caught during the strike paying wages to scabs which were double those which were paid to the union employees. The National Labor Relations Board made management stop this unfair labor practice and forced them to post a notice saying the club wouldn't do it again...
While it is silly for anyone to say that the club is operating more economically during the strike, it is especially inane for the comment to come from a vice president. Some of the club's "more economical" operations during the strike include paying its lawyers to go to court on a half-dozen occasions to have the name of the club's President, Don Shapiro, removed from our picket signs, hiring a full video crew to tape our children, who have had to use our picket line as a day care center, purchasing and installing state...
...Armstrong's contention that the club is operating on a more economical basis because of the strike reminds me of a comment issued by an auto expert years ago, when Chevrolet introduced it's Corvair model: "It's the ultimate economy car. It doesn't start...