Word: union
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rounded the island and arrived once again in Cienfuegos on Nov. 7. I protested angrily to Dobrynin on Nov. 14 and told him later that servicing submarines in or from Cuban ports would "lead to the most grave situation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...United Auto Workers. After the contract settlement with General Motors two weeks ago, that fund will not be needed to pay picketing workers, and Chrysler may try to borrow from it This week Chrysler will open its own contract negotiations with the U.A.W., and ways in which the union might help the automaker will be discussed. U.A.W. President Douglas Fraser rules out using the $300 million kitty, but may accept partly deferred wage or benefit payments in return for a voice in management by workers. Fraser, a fan of the West German system of worker representatives on boards of directors...
This year they have a different gripe: labor disputes are plaguing the nation's overburdened crop distribution system at a time when bin-busting harvests and a high export demand augur a booming farm economy. Since late August the United Transportation Union and the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks have halted operations on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, which serves 1,680 grain elevators in the Midwest. And for almost three months a strike by the American Federation of Grain Millers has closed the 13 huge grain elevators in the port of Duluth-Superior, stopping...
...order" telling other rail companies to operate Rock Island equipment over its rights-of-way. The grain millers' strike also appeared to be nearing a conclusion. At week's end five of the eight grain elevator operators struck by the millers had reached tentative agreements with the union, and bargaining with the others was continuing...
...nuns have criticized Blue Diamond, which operates three mines in eastern Kentucky, for a multitude of sins, including assorted environmental abuses, union-busting activities and wrongful denial of responsibility for a 1976 accident at a Kentucky mine that killed 26 men. (Blue Diamond has been cited for violations of Government safety regulations more than 4,500 times in the past nine years.) In March the nuns asked Blue Diamond to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission so that the SEC would have to regulate it. The company refused, stating that the nuns had not been registered as bona fide...