Word: unionizers
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...announced the whole damn thing was a fraud. Rick Helling, a 27-year-old righthanded pitcher and the players' representative for the Texas Rangers, stood up at the winter meeting of the Executive Board of the Major League Baseball Players Association and made an announcement. He told his fellow union leaders that steroid use by ballplayers had grown rampant and was corrupting the game...
...What Helling had just done was the equivalent of turning up all the lights, clicking off the music and announcing the party was over. "He was the first guy," David Cone said, "who had the guts to stand up at a union meeting and say that in front of everybody and put pressure...
...cuts have been challenged by the custodial workers’ union, SEIU 615. However, Harvard notified the organization of the cuts in January, and even postponed the layoffs to allow them more time to adapt. Harvard seems to have taken reasonable steps with the union, making the group’s criticisms seem a little hollow...
...could also list a number of his academic accomplishments. Brother Blue began his street performing career as a Harvard undergraduate in the 1940s, telling stories in the Square. He has the credentials of a University professor, including an M.F.A. from the Yale Drama School and a Ph.D. from the Union Institute. Brother Blue also served as the storyteller in residence at the Harvard Divinity school from 1974-1976. Now a member of the Cabot House Senior Common Room, Blue takes time to lead several workshops, including a weekly storytelling class at the Episcopal Divinity School on Tuesday nights...
...Moscow, complaining that the U.S. wasn't paying enough rent for the base; the surprising change just happened to come after the Russians, who hate the idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in their backyard, offered $2 billion in aid to their former fellow state in the Soviet Union...