Word: worked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...support the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) in its strike against the Pittston Corporation by attending the the rally today at noon in front of the Harvard Corporation? After all, it's no longer rational to automatically side with organized labor against management. Excessive wage demands, counter-productive work rules, featherbedded benefits and union corruption are not just figments of the right-wing imagination. But the Pittston strike is different...
...UMWA deserves your support because they are right. Dead right. This strike isn't about demands for outlandish salaries or featherbedded work rules. The miners on the pickets of Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky are struggling over the basic dignities that American workers can reasonably expect--the right to bargain collectively in good faith, the right to a contract and the right to health benefits for retirees, disabled workers and surviving spouses...
After the last contract expired in January, 1988, Pittston stopped paying such medical benefits. For 17 months, the UMWA postponed a strike and continued to work without a contract, while Pittston ceased paying into its benefit plan. This January, governors of three states intervened in the dispute, asking Pittston and the union to negotiate face to face. The miners agreed; Pittston refused...
...been carving for a month. Beside him sits his son Ryusei, 37, a fourth-generation ivory carver. The elder Kawaguchi is a gentle man with a reverence for the gleaming white medium he has spent his lifetime bringing to life. His eyes are weak from the strain of the work. Only in the stillness of night does he carve the delicate faces. When he fashions the eyes, the nose, the mouth, he holds his breath to steady his hands...
...film, but Prince uses the album to retell the story and recast himself as the Dark Knight's alter ego. If that seems weird, no one seems bothered. The Batman sound track hit No. 1 on the Billboard chart, and contains some of Prince's wildest and most soulful work since Purple Rain...