Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...University inked an unprecedented five-year deal with its dining services workers last week, ending weeks of tense negotiations and narrowly averting a strike...
Picketers set to hit the streets had to be called off last Wednesday when the pact was sealed just hours before the contract was due to expire and a strike to begin...
...Bozzotto, who described both himself and his union as "confrontational," said he was anticipating a strike. In fact, union leaders were so sure that a shutdown was on the way that they had already given picketing and civil disobedience assignments to workers in the union for the day after negotiations...
Earlier this month, Bozzotto told The Crimson that there would be a strike unless the University pulled subcontracting off the table. Indeed, dining services workers had struck in 1983 and 1986 over that very issue...
...What he did was take this stone on our shoe that we were going to strike over, and...what he really did was bring some innovative language to the table," Bozzotto said. "Remember we've had two strikes over this stuff, and if they had negotiated the way they used to, there would have been a third...