Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teams organize themselves as they wish and work at the speed they choose. While a worker on a conventional assembly line might spend his entire shift mounting one license-plate lamp after another, every member of a Kalmar work team may work at one time or another on all parts of the electrical system-from taillights to turn signals, head lamps, horn, fuse box and part of the electronically controlled fuel-injection system. The only requirement is that every team meet its production goal for a shift. As long as cars roll out on schedule, workers are free to take...
Medical Area workers are upset, too, about what they consider to be an inequitable system of promotions. Like so many other things at Harvard, promotions and raises are awarded on Harvard's assessment of merit. Organizers find the concept, which often ignores experience and time considerations, elitist and ugly enough, but it is the system in practice that especially disturbs them. Although a worker earns yearly wage-hikes for any work above a "marginal" level, as that worker approaches the upper salary limit of the employment "grade," the possible increments in pay decrease drastically. Organizers maintain that Harvard can hold...
...other instances of alleged police abuse occurred this summer involving black victims and white police officers. A maintenance worker at Walden Square said he tried to stop a fight on a July afternoon when a patrolman set his attack dog after him. In another incident an East Cambridge man was assaulted by a gang of white youths and he alleges he was refused aid when he called Cambridge police...
...alleged assailant, a former worker at the Carpenter Center, also shouted abuse and made violent threats to women office workers in the rooms occupied by the head tutor of the Visual and Environmental Studies department, before maintenance workers succeeded in subduing the man, witnesses said...
...made the dozens of daily decisions about handling the boat, and his testiness helped create problems keeping the crew together. One of the boys was arrested for possession of marijuana during a stopover in Mexico; Four Winds sailed on without him. Another crewman proved to be an almost pathological worker who resented the fact that other crew members were not so energetic as he. A third was an easygoing child of nature who never did any chore that he could possibly put off. The author, who weaves entries from the boys' diaries to gether with his own observation...