Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School for Democratic Management: The same people who bring you Mother Jones magazine (which uncovered the Ford Pinto gas tank scandal), San Francisco-based, the first alternative business school, for people in worker-controlled, collective and cooperative enterprises...
EPEA's latest project was a feasibility study on the re-opening, under community and worker control, of the shut-down Youngstown, Ohio, steel mill. Alperovitz's analysis of the much-ballyhoed "steel crisis" last year shows that corporate greed was the core of the problem, the catalyst for throwing Youngstown out of work. Youngstown Sheet and Tube, locally-owned and highly-profitable in the '60s, was 1969's Ripe Takeover of the Year. Lykes Steamship Company, based in New Orleans and one-seventh the size of Youngstown, borrowed the buy-out capital from Wall Street and elsewhere, using Youngstown...
...dining hall workers may well denounce the renegotiated contract. While the University does offer them a wage increase, many at the union meeting contended that the increase is still not enough to keep up with inflation. But more importantly, the University has made no concessions on benefits, the issue of central concern to most of the kitchen workers. Harvard now provides the dining hall workers with absurdly low pension payments--$90 a month after 25 years of service, and a 10 per cent reduction if a worker retires before age 62, and did not improve the pension plan...
Madeleine Lourie, a staff worker for Local 880, agrees with the students' view. "It's been important and good for the union to have students working, but it is just as good for the student -- it's a real education for them. They leave the union with a sense of union work and how important it is," she says...
Gere plays Stony De Coco, a 19-year-old who still lives with his suffocating parents in the antiseptic, concrete high-rises of The Bronx. Should Stony continue the family tradition and become a construction worker? Or should he follow his desires and become a white-collar counselor to infirm children? A simple dilemma, but Bloodbrothers takes forever to resolve it. There is so much clutter in this movie that it is often difficult to find Stony amidst the underbrush...