Word: controller
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Other tenants opposed any general rent increase. While a member of the Cambridge Tenants Organization waved a sign saying "Stop Landlord Super-Profits," Frances Segal, head of the Cambridge Committee of Elders, said, "The purpose of rent control is to protect the landlord from the ravages of inflation...
...UCTWO was constituted as an official organization called the Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students (OSTWS). OSTWS focused their efforts on the demand for greater Third World student input and control in the admissions process. The result was the first freshperson Minority Orientation Program in the fall of 1975. Minority orientation has proven to be the mainstay of programmatic activity which has been developed by Third World students from 1975 to the present...
...director of the People's Business Commission, points out that if union efforts were to provoke new legal restrictions on pension investment, "you haven't lost anything." However, he believes such business attempts would fail, in part because state and local governments would regard legal thwarting of union control as raising the threat of eventual federal encroachment onto their own sovereignty...
...OTHER HAND, Barber acknowledges that union leaders must go a long way in educating the rank and file before they can be sure the members will fight for pension control demands presented on the bargaining table. Increased educational programs may be one of the recommendations in a forthcoming study of the pension issue commissioned by the AFL-CIO Executive Council. The AFL-CIO's Industrial Union Department is also expected to release its own study of the matter in the next few months...
...there are signs around the country that other unions are envious of the 50-per-cent representation in pension boards common to the building trades, trucking and other multi-employer industries. The International Chemical Workers have succeeded in placing a watchdog representative on one board and gaining joint control on another. In March the bargaining council of the Communication Workers of America voted to demand "effective union participation in pension fund investment policies...