Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good Chuck Colson is.' " Colson was strongly influenced by Thomas Phillips, president of the Raytheon Company and an old friend who had himself undergone a religious conversion experience. Phillips put Colson in touch with Iowa Democrat Harold Hughes, who is leaving the Senate to become a lay religious worker. Hughes accepted Colson's spiritual fervor as a sincere attempt to begin a new life...
Huck himself (Jeff East) has been changed into a sort of homespun civil rights worker who comes easily to his vision of the brotherhood of man. "Why, Jim!" he exclaims, looking at the slave's wounded neck. "Your blood's red same as mine!" Twain's Huck, it will be recalled, was a good deal troubled by matters of conscience, and it took him most of the book to wrestle down the acquired prejudices of Southern boyhood. Hardly a doubt stirs this Huck, of course. He is a real nice boy from the very start -maybe just...
That so peaceful a union should suddenly turn militant underscores the ominous strains that inflation is setting up in labor-management relations after a long period of worker docility. The strikers, who include cloth cutters, buttonhole makers, sewing-machine operators, pattern makers and tailors, now earn an average of $3.60 an hour, or roughly $135 a week. They are demanding an increase of $1.10 an hour, or a startling 30%, over three years-50? the first year, and 30? for each of the next two. On top of that, the Amalgamated demands an escalator clause that would raise wages further...
...WENT OVER to my other sister's house in Oakland the next day. I really wanted to just disappear, but decided I'd give the so-called sane world one more chance. Sharon was studying Montessori and her husband, Paul, was a social worker in the Oakland Welfare Department. They were a lot more down-to-earth than Barb and Ray--they showed their ideals through actions rather than words. I almost could have stayed there...
After the student-worker upheavals of 1968, Chirac conducted some of the tricky negotiations with union leaders on labor reforms that ended the crisis. When Pompidou moved to the Elysée, he brought his bulldozer into the Cabinet as Agriculture Minister and later Interior Minister. Several years ago, Chirac observed that the chief function of a Premier in France is to "take responsibility for everything that is a bit disagreeable and difficult." Chirac has seldom expressed a firm conviction on any issue; he seems less interested in political abstractions than in the technical exercise of sheer power...