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...employees criticize the union for a recent dues increase, the charging of dues year-round although they are represented for only nine months, and the difficulty of attending union meetings held near Roxbury...
Running is a part of life for this thoughtful athlete-musician as Keefe runs virtually year-round, competing in all three track seasons...
...assertion that piece rates regularly generate farmworker earnings in the range of $8000-$15,000 annually is to consider the potential yearly earnings under, ideal conditions, of the highest paid farm laborers--the lettuce and grape workers under union contracts. The lettuce worker contracts provide for wages of $2.44-$2.49 per hour and piece rates of 42-45 cents per box. If (1) climate and crop conditions are excellent; (2) a worker follows the year-round lettuce harvest from Arizona up the California valleys; (3) the laborer cuts lettuce (the most back-breaking job in the harvest); (4) there...
...Farm Labor Number of Laborers Average Number of Days Worked/Year Annual Income Casual Worker less than 25 days/yr. 1.1 million 9 days $94.05 Non-Casual 1.7 million 141 days 1877.00 Seasonal 25-149 days/yr. 1.0 million 66 days 765.00 Regulars 150-249 days/yr. 0.3 million 198 days 2673.00 Year-Round 250+ days/yr. 0.4 million 306 days...
Even Dartmouth, the most staunchly male of all the Ivy League schools, went co-ed two years ago, although its reasons were more financial than ideological. Faced with increasing deficits and decreasing popularity, the Dartmouth trustees decided in 1972 to go to a year-round academic calendar and to increase the size of the student body from 800 in a class to about 1000 per class by adding women...