Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investigation is being conducted; a complete, impartial and open investigation must be undertaken and completed soon. For its part, Holcombe's union must also break its silence on his case, and stop forcing Holcombe to carry the full weight of the suspension on his own shoulders. Student and worker solidarity behind Holcombe is encouraging, but unless the facts of the Holcombe case are brought out and submitted to proper scrutiny, solidarity will not be enough to secure his reinstatement...
...Mary herself is usually slack-jawed with bafflement-about her sister, who has fallen in with the local massage-parlor king; her grandfather, "the Fernwood Flasher"; and most of all by her stolid and truly enigmatic husband Tom. Though he is having an affair with Mae, a comely co-worker at the plant, he is impotent with Mary. The situation makes him terse and glum. If he can't do it, poor, dead-voiced Mary wants to talk about it. In one of the show's more venturesome scenes, written by Lear himself, Mary complains that she cannot...
Working conditions in the copy division, according to copy service employees and union attorneys, have been intolerable; worker-supervisor tension has increased considerably over the past few years, and workers say they find themselves in constant danger of losing their jobs...
...neither Harvard nor its workers rely on the NLRB as a convenient way of disposing of union and worker grievances. In the long run, the University must improve its internal investigatory processes and some of its more questionable hiring and dismissal policies if it is to avoid drawn-out and often embarrassing battles in the NLRB...
Although Pasqualini is finally transformed into a dedicated, right-thinking worker and prisoner, it is evident from his alert recognition of the method involved, even as the change is taking place in him, that he has not become an automaton. The mode of thought expected of him has been clarified; he feels supported and supportive--even more so when the French government rebuffs his written appeals. On a very basic level, his assimilation represents the kind of adjustment generally expected of its members by any social system...