Word: workers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Zivkovic, a Yugoslavian native, is a hard worker who is perpetually enthusiastic about fencing. His impact on the sport has been recognized throughout the world, and his effect on Harvard fencers has already been beneficial...
...symptom of the cancer that is hounding and crippling this community. The real issue is the reckless manner in which the University has been able to run the lives of the very individuals it is supposed to serve as a source of inspiration and livelihood: its students and workers. Put as succinctly as possible: democracy has become little more than a provocative abstraction, or an esoteric topic for Social Studies tutorials, in this institution. Harvard is run by a bureaucratic dictatorship, properly fueled and oiled by corporate money, revealing in its internal organization and government its true nature. What...
...where hustling and mugging are commonplace. It has been even worse lately because of New York City's empty coffers and the continued loss of factory jobs to other parts of the country. Nonetheless, Jimmy Carter's election has brought a measure of wary optimism. Explained Community Worker Eduardo Standard: "They expect him to pay more attention to jobs. Doesn't matter whether it's private jobs or public jobs, just so long as it's work. As we say here, when you're sitting on a hot furnace, there's no place...
...reason that many of the jobs are going begging is that some unemployed people can afford to be choosy about work. For instance, in New York, dishwashing at the minimum wage of $2.30 per hr. pays less than the unemployment compensation ($95 a week) available to a skilled worker who is out of a job. But according to New York State Labor Commissioner Philip Ross, a more important reason is that most advertised jobs require some skills, and high schools "don't train enough people for work that is available...
...leave them alone in others. Outside Del Rey. Calif.. Harold Shidan, 57, a stocky raisin grower, faulted Carter for endorsing the state's unsuccessful attempt to settle the three-way labor battle between the growers, the Teamsters Union and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. The proposal that Carter supported would have permitted union organizers to campaign on growers' property and would have mandated secret elections for union representation. Shidan griped that he has had to pull up seven acres of plum trees because, at $2.75 per hr. for a migrant worker's labor...