Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University has only proven the validity of grievances continually voiced by the workers this year by isolating and intimidating witnesses to various actions connected with the walkout, by threatening individual workers with reprisals, and by attempting to divide the union by praising those who refused to honor the walkout. An extreme case of University intimidation is that of Sylvia Gallagher, a worker in the College Dining Hall who left Eliot House last Monday to inform Adams House workers of the walkout. Gallagher has apparently been threatened with punishment by the University for her role in the walkout; she was also...
...University should appoint an independent task force to consider the deteriorating labor-management situation at Harvard, with the goals of eliminating racism in the dining halls and elsewhere, instituting worker-management dialogue and some degree of worker participation in management decision making, and strict adherence to both the letter and the spirit of the workers' contract agreement...
Each salesman makes his own decisions as to whom he will try to sell to within his neighborhood territory. The statement of one Southwestern worker who quit that, "I had sold three houses in a row that day, and I was selling to people who couldn't afford the dictionaries," is especially noteworthy. If he felt that they could not afford the books, then why did he take their order at all? In the neighborhoods in which we work, there are literally thousands of other families who are financially able to save up the three to seven dollars a week...
...campaign trail, he is a political Rorschach test. People see in him what they want to see. In Maryland, zealous Campaign Worker Ellen McCarthy views him as the candidate most like her father Eugene McCarthy. But Brown's Rhode Island vice chairman, State Senator Guide Camilla, who describes himself as a 'hardcore conservative,' sees Brown as someone whom conservatives could rally round...
Srouji's ties to the FBI might have gone undetected if she had not been involved in another sensitive matter: the mysterious death of Karen Silkwood (TIME, Jan. 20, 1975). An Oklahoma plutonium worker active in her union, Silkwood was killed in a 1974 auto accident while on the way to tell a reporter about alleged health and nuclear safety violations in the plant where she worked. Just before returning to the Tennessean, Srouji finished writing Critical Mass, a paean to the nuclear industry to be released this summer by Aurora Publishers Inc., a small Nashville concern. The book...