Word: subcontracting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workers said they gave in because many believed they could not attempt another strike, while others feared reprisals from the University--such as a decision to subcontract out the work to non-union laborers. The lithographers, photo-engravers and bookbinders who make up the union have struck Harvard twice in the past seven years over wage increases...
...Force colonel at the Pentagon wisecracked that the U.S. might eventually have to "charter an air force from Pan Am." Better yet, said another, in case of conflict "we could subcontract the whole war." Still others joked bitterly about how the service had suffered "its highest attrition rate ever on a single...
...problem was sloppy welding and shoddy inspection-and apparently attempts to cover them up-in a 144-mile stretch of the pipeline between the Yukon River and a point south of Fairbanks. Ketchbaw Industries, a Houston firm, had a subcontract to perform X-ray tests of the welding; those tests had been required to reduce chances of a serious oil spill. Last year a Ketchbaw employee charged that there had been falsification of some tests. The pipeline consortium investigated the charges, decided that they had substance, and brought a suit against Ketchbaw. Ketchbaw denies falsification and has filed a countersuit...
Although the trustees' edict gave liability for the operation of services related to medical care to B.U., the school may subcontract Harvard and Tufts to help meet its responsibility...
Even if ADL has refused to accept any more government contracts for offensive weapons to be used in Indochina, that is not enough. Many companies subcontract from others rather than directly from the government and can claim ignorance as to the use of their products. (This is one dodge Raytheon uses in claiming, "We don't know of any of our products being used in Vietnam." In fact their Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles are standard equipment there...