Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boss of Local 226 of the Culinary Workers Union, which represents 22,000 employees in Nevada's casino hotels and restaurants, Bramlet made enemies as effortlessly as gamblers throw dice. Following a strike last March, his own rank and file accused him of selling out to employers with sweetheart contracts. Other union chiefs despised him as a double-crosser. Establishments that resisted his organizers had fire-bomb problems. But like Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, Bramlet is a labor leader who apparently made one enemy too many: the Mafia. Last week, with a chilling sense...
...behind the farmworkers' backs, the lettuce growers entered into "sweetheart contracts" with the Teamsters. Farmworkers were outraged; 7000 went out on strike in Salinas. Lettuce boycotts were launched in the cities. In December, 1972, the California Supreme Court concluded there had been Supreme Court concluded there had been collusion between the Teamsters and the lettuce farm owners in the negotiation of the contracts...
FRENCH OPERA ARIAS; FREDERICA VON STADE (Columbia). The U.S.'s current operatic sweetheart gives a few lessons in what the French aria is all about...
...July 10 the non-striking Gallo workers, including the new replacements, ratified a four-year Teamster contract by a vote of 158-1. The striking workers did not vote in the contract-ratification election and Cesar Chavez, head of the UFW, called the contract a "sweetheart deal" between the Teamsters and the winery. The UFW complained that the election had not been verified by a third-party, but Solomon said that it had not even been observed by Gallo. "It was a closed-door union meeting; management doesn't sit in on contract-ratification votes," Solomon says...
...York Times endorsed the boycott as the best of the available alternatives and called upon the Teamsters to let the UFW unionize without having to fight the "piratical raids and sweetheart contracts of the nation's biggest, toughest union...