Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brief police strikes, a wildcat walkout by municipal mechanics, 23 vetoes of city council legislation, continual scrambles to meet employee payrolls -it's been a tough nine months for Cleveland and Dennis Kucinich, 31, the nation's youngest big-city mayor. Last week it got tougher...
Nobody likes a wildcat strike, which often polarizes workers and employees. This kind of strike--when employees walk off the job without prior warning--indicates a dangerous level of discontent on the part of the employees, a feeling that desperate measures are the only recourse...
...University and the unions differ about the reasons for the walkout. University officials persist in terming it completely unjustified, saying that no matter how pressing an issue appears to be, a wildcat strike is not a solution. J. Lawrence Joyce, director of the Department of Buildings and Grounds (B&G), recently said, "There was no issue that warranted that kind of action," and other officials, such as Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, who called the strike an "unfortunate incident," echo Joyce's comments...
Although cordial relations are restored on the surface, there remain some rough edges to smooth out in the relationship between the University and B&G employees. The fact the wildcat strike erupted at all demonstrated a degree of resentment and anger among the employees the University did not suspect. The strike jolted Harvard into improving the concrete terms of the reassignment policy and its communication with the MTC. But the continued disagreement over the suspension penalty and vestigial dissatisfaction over the contract indicates the University has a long way to go toward pacifying its maintenance workers' grievances...
...squads played dead even until ten minutes remained in the game. With the score deadlocked at 4-4, two UNH defenders converged on Harvard's Ellen Seidler as she was about to receive a feed from teammmate Sarah Mleczko. The three players collided before the ball arrived, and a Wildcat went down with a cut head...