Word: union
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freedom from government repression. Brutal dictatorships were defeated in popular elections during the last year in Chile, Pakistan and, for all intents and purposes, Panama, while Poles this week voted in the first openly contested elections in the Soviet bloc. And, lest we forget, democratic openings in the Soviet Union continue to unfold at an amazing pace, astounding even the most cynical of observers, and culminating, so far, in a genuine choice for Soviet voters in the elections to the new Congress of People's Deputies two months...
...Union, which is now used as a first-year student dining hall, would be converted into a humanities center, providing office accommodations for faculty and administrators in the humanities...
Last year, as part of a student, prounion delegation, I met with Bok in his office in an unsuccessful attempt to persuade him to end the administration's anti-union campaign. We knew we were meeting with one of the Big Boys of the Corporate World, so we tried to be polite and respectable. I removed my earring and even wore a jacket and tie. We sat up straight, avoided rhetoric, and kept our feet off the coffee table...
During the meeting, we presented Bok with a petition signed by over 3000 students urging the University to remain neutral during the union election. We told Bok that we understood the administration was within its legal rights to wage an anti-union campaign; we were asking the administration to hold itself to a higher standard. He quickly and unapologetically confirmed what we had feared--that despite what we are taught, moral pressure has no place in the grown-up world of university politics...
...style is far more insidious than Silber's Despite his policies, he is still associated with liberalism, with democratic values, and with compassion--an image he shrewdly manages to preserve at the expense of the reputations of his underlings. When labor law scholar Bok tries to bust a union, he sits quietly in his office, while Associate Vice President for Human Resources Ann Taylor is sent to the front lines to use scare tactics and talk worse-case scenarios...