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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While at Harvard there is nary a whisper of discontent among graduate students, the Yale administration is preparing to defend itself against its own graduate students who lodged a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board for unfair labor practices during last spring's teaching assistant (TA) strike...

Author: By Jennifer L. Burns, | Title: Harvard TFs Happy; See No Labor Problems | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

Money is not the only reason Harvard has not experienced a similar strike, Burger said...

Author: By Jennifer L. Burns, | Title: Harvard TFs Happy; See No Labor Problems | 2/6/1997 | See Source »

...think we have just begun to strike a nerve in America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWSPEAK | 2/5/1997 | See Source »

Toward the end of the grade strike, the administration called three of the elected union leaders up on disciplinary charges, Pashcoff said...

Author: By Kelly M. Yamanouchi, | Title: NLRB Files Suit In Federal Court For TAs at Yale | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

More ambiguous episodes followed. During the 1975 pressman's strike, Graham helped wrap Sunday papers herself in an effort to keep the paper publishing; it's a charming scene, but her account of the bitter labor battle is understandably one-sided. She agonizes about the executives she had to fire, then complains of the "sexist implications" of stories that call her a difficult woman to work for. There was steel there after all. Kay Graham had finally come of age: she no longer had to please everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: KATHERINE GRAHAM: THE IRON LADY SPEAKS | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

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