Word: union
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Institute of Engineering Technology to study Interior and Exterior Decorating and Painting, specializing in color pigments, marbleizing, staining, graining, etc., and was awarded a diploma upon completion, was made a member of the Institute for life enabling me to use the initials A.M.I.E.T. Also I have worked for several Union and Non-Union outfits in Boston and at one time operated a business of my own before I came to Harvard...
...opinion that painters would get a lot more respect if more people knew what the trade consists of. Many opinions have been formed due to the fact that the Union is always open to painters, whereas for several years it has been extremely difficult for electricians, plumbers, etc. to join the Union. The situation is as such now if an individual has been in the Union all of his life and he retires or dies a member of his family or a relative of his can be considered for his space. The main reason for this difference in the admitting...
...stated goal of Sweden's National Trade Union Confederation, or Lands-organisation, is "to give due consideration to the effect of wage developments on the national economy." Sweden's powerful LO represents one worker in every two, and Denmark's LO also has every second worker as a member; Norway's encompasses a third of all breadwinners. Management groups are equally strong, well-organized-and enlightened. Corporations provide quite a few fringe benefits. Oslo's Tandbergs Radiofabrikk, for instance, supplies a gym for its employees and holds parties for them, including one near Christmas...
ENFORCEMENT: Contracts are legally binding, and LO officials deal harshly with any wildcat strike, threatening to expel an offending local from the national union. They are backed by labor courts, which have the power to fine individual strikers. When 1,000 longshore men walked out at Gothenburg last month in Sweden's first sizable wildcat strike in 20 years, they prudently announced in advance that their protest against piecework wages would last only one week...
Pledge sheets now being circulated by HMC in the House dining halls and the Union will form the basis for the rebatetally. The University has asked that these petitions be in by 2 p.m. Monday, December 8. in order to adjust its advance food orders...