Word: strikingly
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...order earlier this week, Michael O. Miller, an administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), ruled the grade-strike that GESO held at the beginning of 1996 was not protected under labor law. The 'grade-strike' involved nearly 200 graduate students withholding grades of undergraduate courses, according to union leaders...
Yale officials hailed the decision as a complete exoneration of their response to the grade-strike...
...response to the grade strike, university administrators had threatened to withhold teaching assignments, to expel teaching assistants (T.A.) who had participated in the strike and to put negative letters of recommendation in their files...
Attorneys for GESO filed a complaint earlier this year alleging Yale's response to the strike constituted retaliation and aimed at preventing the union's formation, which is illegal under labor...
...post-Soviet era, Russian bureaucrats in Volgograd have turned to an even older form of payment to offer their workers: Turnips. And carrots, beets, and other assorted vegetables from the local harvest. The workers, who are owed about $175,000, refused the offer and staged a one hour protest strike. They say they will strike for real next week if they are not paid in cash. But in a country where even soldiers are reduced to begging on street corners to make enough cash for lunch, workers might ultimately have to eat their vegetables...