Word: union
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Competition reigns in the central market of Budapest on Tolbuhin St., as peppers ripen and vendors strive to attract customers. Built during the glory days of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the Tolbuhin market exhibits an atmosphere of abundance. Although Hungary has long existed in the shadow of the Soviet Union, the indoor market reflects none of the food shortages and the long lines that are characteristic of many Eastern Bloc countries. In the pictures shown, food vendors hawk their wares of sausages, eggs, peppers and tomatoes...
...America (UMWA) in its strike against the Pittston Corporation by attending the the rally today at noon in front of the Harvard Corporation? After all, it's no longer rational to automatically side with organized labor against management. Excessive wage demands, counter-productive work rules, featherbedded benefits and union corruption are not just figments of the right-wing imagination. But the Pittston strike is different...
Although there have been reports of violence on both sides of the UMWA-Pittston dispute, the moral highground clearly belongs to the union. Rarely since the Bad Old Days when companies broke up strikes with armed thugs has there been a case where the two sides of a labor dispute were so clearly good and evil...
...side is the UMWA, the union that represents the practitioners of the single most dangerous occupation in the country. In its early days, the UMWA led miners against the unrestrained vigor of the fiercest union-busting efforts that American industry has ever attempted. Before the days of a powerful UMWA, miners suffered working conditions and company oppression that make Frank Lorenzo's Eastern seem a socialist utopia...
Against long odds, the UMWA prevailed. And despite some setbacks, it has remained true to its purpose of protecting workers. When the union's leadership became infected with corruption in the 1960s, the rank-and-file membership ousted the corrupt administration of Tony Boyle in a democratic election...