Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill would have made union organizing easier by simplifying the enforcement of existing labor-relations laws. A key provision would have given any worker fired for union recruiting-such firings are already banned by law-time and a half in back pay. At present, such a worker must be given normal retroactive pay. Another provision would require that elections among employees on whether to form unions be held in at least 35 days; current law specifies 45 days...
...SECOND DEFICIENCY in the Powell opinion is its vagueness on the subject of racial quotas in hiring practices. And while the use of quotas in admissions offices is of arguable merit, it plays a crucial role in industries. As one construction worker said while taking part in the anti-Bakke demonstrations in Washington last April, "Right now minority hiring in construction is based solely on quota systems. If the Court makes quotas illegal, then we lose about the only thing we have going for us as a people who haven't had the opportunity to get a good education." Although...
...Worker output slackens around the world...
...because of her "bad" class background. In "Chairman Mao Is a Rotten Egg," a young mother is virtually overcome by anxiety because her small child is rumored to have repeated a counterrevolutionary slogan picked up on the street from his playmates. K'uai Shih-fu is a common worker who, irritated because he cannot buy fish at the market, is provoked into a small but redeeming act of political defiance. These subtle, honest tales are apt to be considered literary oddities, parochial stories set in an exotic political landscape. They deserve greater esteem. The Execution of Mayor...
...weeks instead of three or four, and we're bringing in another couple to hold down the rental." Marliss Levin, a suburban Chicago housewife, has taken classes in home plumbing and wiring, and has started to do her own auto repairs. Mary Sinclair, wife of a Detroit auto worker, has taken a part-time job as a housekeeper; her mother makes most of the clothes for the couple's two children, and Mary takes the kids to Sunday movie matinees (tickets: $1 each) to make up for the vacations the family can no longer afford...