Word: tradesmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vincent J. Sirabella, business agent for local 35, said yesterday his union, which consists of "exclusively blue collar types of workers," is the only one on the Yale campus. It represents all dining hall workers, maintenance men, custodial staff, mechanics and skilled tradesmen. The union is demanding an eight per cent increase for each of three years for all workers, Sirabella said...
...most prosperous and at the same time one of the most oppressive countries in Communist Europe. Much to the dismay of Party Boss Erich Honecker, some 200,000 people have applied to live in West Germany. Although many of the applicants have lost their jobs and apartments, tradesmen, workers and professional people still persist in trying...
...U.R.W. selected Firestone as its "target company" and demanded a COLA with no "cap," or limit, plus a $ 1.65 hourly raise ($2 for skilled tradesmen) right away. The union also asked for further raises in the second and third contract years and an increase in fringe benefit expenditures from $3.55 to $4.73 per hour. Further, it demanded that workers who do not produce tires be paid no less than tire workers...
...onto the balcony of the Royal Palace overlooking Madrid's Plaza de Oriente. Instantly, the human sea of 150,000 faithful down below him thrust right arms forward in salute. Then the crowd launched into Face to the Sun, the anthem of the right-wing Falangist shopkeepers and tradesmen who sided with Franco when he began his bloody struggle for power 39 years ago and have been unswerving in their support of him ever since. Franco spoke only three minutes in his thin, barely audible voice, but that was all he needed. Spain was under assault by "a leftist...
...Anthropologist Edmund Leach's charge that anti-Marketeers were misty-minded isolationists who showed "the same degree of contact with rational probability as a New Guinea cargo cult." On the other side, angry leftist Playwright John Osborne denounced the EEC as "the last desperate dream of dull, dim tradesmen without vision, imagination or self-respect, feeling for life or history...