Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason, of course, was the six-week-old strike against G.E. Whether the boycott will force the company to budge remains to be seen. Union boycotts generally have been ineffective. Indeed, at the scheduled start of the G.E. boycott on the day after Thanksgiving, no pickets showed up in major cities, though the unions promise that there will be many this week. Its determination is a sign of the growing bitterness in U.S. labor relations. Union men, whose pay raises in the past few years have barely kept pace with price boosts, increasingly feel that corporations and the Government...
...middle of this week, the U.S. could face the worst labor trouble of the year: a strike by 15 shop unions against the major railroads. The indications last week were that a settlement would be reached in time to prevent the walkout. If the strike occurs, however, President Nixon will probably have to break his pledge to keep hands off union disputes and request special legislation to settle the walkout. Whatever the outcome, the U.S. has reason to be uneasy. Unions will have to negotiate new contracts for some 4,000,000 workers next year-in what seems certain...
...backed by labor courts, which have the power to fine individual strikers. When 1,000 longshore men walked out at Gothenburg last month in Sweden's first sizable wildcat strike in 20 years, they prudently announced in advance that their protest against piecework wages would last only one week...
...company's salesmen stay together and play together. A team of them often converges on a town and spends the whole week blanketing it. On weekends, salesmen and their families are expected to invest their leisure time in the company of local managers...
LOOKING for a new experience? Always check out University Hall first to see if it is being occupied-but then, if the scene there is quiet go to Mem Hall and try giving blood. My blood debut came last week. and it booked me on becoming a regular donor...