Word: union
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Buffy drives home, forlorn, after a particularly wrenching scene with Angel; teardrop face framed in the windshield under a rain-dark sky. It's a lovely television moment, and the addition of Alison Krauss & Union Station's wistful, wispy "It Doesn't Matter" touches it with greatness...
...been watching the labor disputes between the security guard union and Harvard officials was surprised when most of the guards accepted a buy-out and retired. Harvard guards remain in the Yard, but in the Houses, outsourced guards stand in their stead, with the few exceptions of Harvard guards who switched to SSI, the private company providing outsourced security. The question now is whether the outsourced guards will prove an adequate replacement...
...union, they say they have won their most important battle. Full time employees will be paid for full-time work, including benefits and union security...
...seems in many ways that both the union and the University, while haggling over the details, are seeing at least partially eye-to-eye on the importance of Harvard employees...
...president John Sweeney on Wednesday delivered to Al Gore the endorsement he coveted, that of Big Labor. "More than any other national leader," the resolution shoved through by Sweeney read, "Al Gore has used the power of his office to defend the freedom of workers to choose a union, free from interference by their employers." For Gore, who?ll get a stump-thumping grassroots organization that his excitement-deprived campaign sorely needs ?- and one that has $40 million to spend ?- the endorsement couldn?t have come at a better time. As in now. "Bill Bradley wasn?t really counting...