Word: unfairly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even after they win membership in once-segregated unions, Negroes often find that white union leaders refuse to negotiate their grievances against an employer. The National Labor Relations Act empowers the National Labor Relations Board to bar unfair labor practices by unions as well as employers, but the law does not specifically say that unfair representation is an unfair labor practice. As a result, unions have questioned the enforceability of NLRB orders to that effect, and many locals have continued to discriminate against their members on the basis of race or other arbitrary reasons...
After the NLRB upheld the Negroes on the ground that unfair representation is an unfair labor practice, Local 12 took its case to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans and confidently cited the only precedent: in 1963, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York held that the pertinent language of the National Labor Relations Act does not make unfair representation an unfair labor practice...
...practical jokes (painting the John seats in Hubbard House red and dangling tom-toms in the wind outside a faculty member's window). Her dreams of glory as a star basketball center were dashed when, after one look at her height, Smith decided that she had an unfair advantage over her college mates, changed the intramural rules so that the ball was thrown in from the side. With vague hopes of becoming a novelist and a ¶average, she graduated...
Every individual has a right to vote. At 6 p.m. a news bulletin declared Docking the Governor of Kansas. Do newsmen mean to tell me that this doesn't affect the voting? It would seem to me this is a great disservice to the electorate and grossly unfair. To predict a trend is one thing, but to come out and say there is a winner when all the polls aren't even closed is not freedom of reporting. It is license...
Brewster claimed that Harvard guarantees itself an unfair advantage in competing for admissions candidates by supplying prospective applicants with A, B, or C ratings. The Yale president apparently felt that a high school senior who receives an A from Harvard, indicating almost certain acceptance, won't bother to consider a school like Yale which does not give ratings...