Word: unionizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cash, hoarding what it has for welfare payments and schools, Michigan had missed a state payroll for the second week in a row. Altogether last week 26,000 employees, including stenographers, state troopers, doctors and "Soapy" Williams himself ($866), went without paychecks. In Lansing the State Employees Credit Union doled out interest-free loans. In Detroit the New York Bar & Grill reassured lunchtime customers from nearby state buildings: CHARGE YOUR MEALS UNTIL THE LEGISLATURE PROVIDES PAYDAYS...
When Stryguine awoke the next day, he began cursing his guards and the Soviet Union. As his guards tried to silence him, he cried out in English, "I'm not the traitor. It's you fellows who are. Talk in English so everyone here can understand what you are saying!" He screamed to bewildered nurses to call the Burmese police and army, that he needed protection, begged them to "call War Office 130," the telephone of Burmese army intelligence...
...Frondizi decree cut the lunch period for government employees from an hour to 30 minutes, forced them to work a 9:30-5:30 shift, scrapping the six-hour day. "A danger to health!" cried the Union of Civil Servants, and public workers accustomed to holding second, private jobs, grumbled that the longer hours might force them to give up their government sinecures. That was fine with Frondizi, who hopes thereby to cut 1) the swollen civil service that comprises a third of the nation's workers, and 2) the government budget deficit of $108 million...
...there had been any award for work on the Emmy show itself, it would have gone to the cameramen and technicians-all NBC executives, and surprisingly competent. In all three cities the pros were picketing outside, fighting for their union's claims that the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians ought to work on all NBC shows, even when they are taped abroad. One result: Vice President Nixon turned up for the award dinner three hours before it started in order to beat the pickets to Washington's Mayflower Hotel and technically avoid crossing the line...
Last week's Washington hearings showed how a small but powerful union can sandbag management. Ostracized by the other newspaper unions, the New York Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union (4,500 members) controls a vital link in the chain of distribution: its drivers pick up bundled papers at the loading docks, truck them to the city's 16,000 newsstands and to certain distribution points in the city and the suburbs. From this strategic position, as testimony last week revealed, the hoods who front for the haulers exacted more than half a million dollars in tribute-probably...