Word: worker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appeal is a clear attempt to stave off the union's momentum. Labor experts say that an appeal would drag out the process for at least a year; a delay this long would inevitably demoralize workers who have been expecting representation and contract negotiation. Awareness of union issues dropped in the five months between the election and the first appeal, and a longer delay could only discourage worker participation. The University could lose the appeal, but still...
...from America to Ecotopia requires a lot of social reconditioning. All companies are small, worker-owned co-operatives, and the distinction between work and play seems to have vanished. Possible, says Callenbach, when people have freed themselves from large corporations and from cars and TV -- what he * calls "isolating technologies." Americans, he complains, have become a nation of emotionally detached creatures. "Humans like to play and mess around, and yet we are trying to live in the lockstep mode of modern society. No other species would put up with having to sit at a desk all day. And yet here...
...posture, and running helps my dancing because I build stamina -- it takes a lot to get through a cha-cha." Other converts appreciate the discipline and challenge of an activity that cannot be faked. "Ballroom dancing cannot be learned by watching American Bandstand," says David Allmuth, a Sacramento construction worker. "The moves are articulate, not haphazard like rock-'n'-roll dancing...
...condition of the homeless is appalling, solutions can seem hopelessly complex. Offering the medical treatment necessary for a derelict alcoholic is different from providing job training and education for a welfare mother, counseling for a teenage runaway or more income for a worker trying to secure an apartment. Yet no matter what their other difficulties, the homeless share a simple problem: they need a place to live. The best response to homelessness is to build more housing. This wealthy nation should start with a basic policy: no American should have to sleep on the street...
...just east of the Continental Divide and an easy horse ride to the Antelope Wells border post, Carlos Chavez Perez, 46, works as a cowboy for $450 a month, about six times what he could earn at home in Chihuahua. Like the Palomas dentist or the assembly-line maquiladora worker in Ciudad Juarez, Chavez eats a lot better doing the gringo's chores than he would doing...