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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure, everybody's concerned," said John T. Sweeny at the Princeton Store. "We anticipated the strike and had many of our books shipped in July." But Sweeny still predicts that about 10 percent of his store's books may be out of stock when school starts at Princeton on Sept...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: UPS Strike Threatens Academic Bookstores | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

Bookstore officials said that at worst the strike will only slow the books' arrival. Publishers will hold shipments to combine with other orders and ship later using other carriers, Sweeny said...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: UPS Strike Threatens Academic Bookstores | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

...workers went on strike in early August demanding higher wages and changes to the pension plan. UPS had returned to only 10 percent of its normal daily volume by using 50,000 managers and administrative employees, the company said in a statement...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: UPS Strike Threatens Academic Bookstores | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

National publishing and college store associations have asked President Clinton to intervene in the strike, which he has refused to do. The Associations of American Publishers has asked Clinton to direct postal workers to give the delivery of educational materials special attention...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: UPS Strike Threatens Academic Bookstores | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

...strike is not solved in the next couple of weeks, there will be a lot of problems at a lot of universities," Distelhorst said.The CrimsonDavid I. LiuStrikers and security officers at the Somerville UPS branch...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, | Title: UPS Strike Threatens Academic Bookstores | 8/15/1997 | See Source »

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