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...want the School Committee to hold the superintendent responsible for her actions over the last six months, as we have been held for ours," said ninth-grader Noah G. McIntire, an organizer of the walkout...
Russell visited several of the suspended students Monday at the home of Mary K. McGuire, senior class president and another organizer of the walkout...
...speakers at the forum is wholly positive when presented in such a manner. Unfortunately, however, when the Simpson protest moved to the inside of the K-School (as happened with the pro-life sign hangers at Senator Arlen Specter's (R-Pen.) speech last spring and with the walkout at Charles Murray's bell curve harangue last fall) the ideal of free speech was undercut. Approximately 30 students walked out two minutes after Simpson's speech had begun. Protests are fairer and more effective when free speech is maintained...
DAYTON, Ohio: Workers from two GM brake plants voted to accept management's offer, bringinging to an end an 18-day strike that had crippled the world's largest automaker. The vote was nearly unanimous, with 99 percent of the strikers voting in favor of the pact. The walkout had forced GM to close 26 of its 29 North American assembly plants and 18 parts plants. In all, 177,375 GM workers were furloughed. The main issue in dispute was outsourcing -- the production of parts by outside companies. The union claimed that practice will cost jobs. The company argued that...
DAYTON, OHIO: Talks have resumed between union and GM negotiators to reach an agreement ending the two-week old strike by workers at two Dayton brake plants. Earlier, negotiators took a brief break following 40 hours of non-stop bargaining. The walkout by 2,700 workers at the two plants has idled some 150,000 GM workers and forced the world's largest automaker to shut down 25 of its 29 North American assembly plants. The effect of the strike has spread beyond GM, as the company has halted steel and engine shipments. Caterpillar Inc., which makes engines...