Word: union
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Touborg said negotiations had been conducted through fair collective bargaining procedures. The guards' representatives bargained with the University, and the union as a whole then ratified the contract...
...Harvard University Guards Union voted almost unanimously to ratify their contract with the University last Friday, ending a three-year stand-off during which the guards had worked without a contract. Even though the contract is the result of three years of negotiations with the University, many guards are not entirely happy with the final product...
...believe that it was the best job that the Union could do under the circumstances because of [Harvard's] hard line stance," said Stephen McCombe, president of the guards union...
...Chief Riley had never met with all of the guards unions as a whole," McCombe said. "He probably doesn't know half the guards in the union. The guards, almost all of them, feel that the chief doesn't care about them...
...Baseball?s umpires have just called themselves out. Fifty-seven of the sports world?s fattest, grumpiest and, by some accounts, blindest men have sent in their resignation from the league, effective September 2. Mind you, it?s not a strike ?- more of a balk. "A strike is a union-sponsored withholding of services," umpires? union head Richie Phillips told the New York Times. "This, in fact, is a resignation of their position and their signing with another corporation to provide services." That "other corporation" was of course tailor-made a few weeks ago for just this eventuality...