Word: union
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cuban novelist Edmundo Desnoes, an official in the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists and author of the book and movie "Memories of Under-development," will discuss the experience of being a writer in Cuba...
Harvard members of the Graphic Arts International Union (Local 300) last week presented the University with a list of contract demands, including a substantial wage increase, a built-in cost-of-living clause and a reduction in their work week...
Cesar Chavez, President of the United Farmworkers of America (UFW), asked state union officials to support a boycott of non-union lettuce grown in California...
...boycott is focused on the non-union brand lettuce, Red Coach, produced by the Bruce Church Company...
Neither of the two longer stories from the 1960s that give this small, unpretentious volume its mass has much of a political message, but that in itself constitutes enough of a political "position" to infuriate the Soviet authorities, who kicked Voinovich out the Writers' Union in 1974. He's no fiery dissident like Solzhenitsyn, waving a flag of traditional Christian values over the atheist Soviet state. His dissatisfaction with Soviet life comes across less as an ideological jihad than as truculent skirmishing. In some ways, it's more effective for just that reason--we know Voinovich has neither icon...