Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After captaining the 1973 freshman team, McDermott started for the varsity much of his sophomore year when Peter Curtin was, sidelined with an injury. He caught eight passes and scored a touchdown that year, but there was no room for a hard worker and enthusiastic team man in the world of football hero-worship at the time. Not with Pat McInally in his senior year...
...Woodsmen have only five returning starters, two on offense. Captain and quarterback Buddy Teevens is a miracle worker on offense, and he'll have to give it a go with a line of rookies. Experienced backs and ends wouldn't hurt either...
...intricacies of church policy? During his years in Venice, parish priests found him open-minded, but unwilling to budge a millimeter when doctrine was at stake. "He is a hardliner on orthodoxy," says the religion editor of Venice's leading daily. Luciani has been hostile to the worker-priest movement and to many workers' Communist attitudes, but has defended their economic rights...
Labor's organizing tactics are also partly to blame. Workers in services are often transitory and largely scattered among thousands of small establishments. Unions have shown little interest in signing them up because they figured that the costs of an organizing drive would not be repaid by the dues from workers in, say, a boutique. Beyond that, says Glenn Watts, head of the Communications Workers, "soap box speeches outside the factory gate will not work any more. The American worker is more educated and has to be approached...
...assistance from the Ford Foundation, was funded from dues even before the experimental period ended, and the plan went forward on its own in January 1974. In Alaska, the teamsters' and the laborers' unions have negotiated legal insurance plans. Employers paid 130, then 150 to 200 an hour per worker for protection that includes even expensive criminal-offense work. While the Alaska plans can cost employers up to $400 or more per worker yearly, most other programs involve limited consultation and assistance?for about $100 per year...