Word: theunion
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harkin enters the ballroom to the cheers ofunion members and the flashes of pocket cameras,shakes hands, waves, sits down to dinner. Theunion leader goes to the podium and starts theintroduction just as the Chicken Kiev is beingserved. This is bad timing, because Harkin willstart speaking to the clinking of silverware,people will stop eating out of politeness, and thechicken and potatoes will grow cold and be leftuneaten...
Tsongas has taken liberal positions on mostissues, including the environment and abortionrights. However, he calls himself "pro-business"and supports more conservative economic policies,including a capital gains tax cut like the oneproposed by bush Tuesday night in his State of theUnion address. he also supports the death penalty...
According to labor experts and Universityofficials, the creation of these local networkswas one of the most significant provisions of theunion contract. Because they modeled the union noton a conflict-oriented relationship with theUniversity, but on a non-hierarchical cooperativeone, they broke with the traditional model ofunion-management relations. And at the time,neither the union nor the University anticipatedthat these committees would incur any significantcosts...
After a brief dispute over certification, theunion became the official staff representative inNovember 1988, and the contract--which washeralded by many in the organized labor movementas a model for future unions--went into effect in1989...
Throughout the final year of the campaign,union organizers were extremely critical of Bok.Although he had gained a reputation as a strongunion supporter as a labor law expert at the LawSchool, Bok--in the role of a manager--opposedunionization and unsuccessfully contested theunion's narrow victory...