Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Solidarity is not a monolith, nor is it a creature of Walesa, though he is certainly its symbol and central force. Solidarity's 18-member leadership sprang directly from last summer's 21-day strike, and thus has a distinct Baltic coast flavor. Many are experienced labor activists who have been in trouble with the authorities before. One presidium member, Anna Walentynowicz, 51, was fired from her job as a crane operator a week before the Lenin Shipyard flare-up last August. "The immediate cause of the strike was to have me rehired," she says with a trace...
...pressure from the powers that be. What were they doing allowing this kid to come into Charlotte with both guns blazing?" Partly in response to this uproar, the editors moved Marlette's cartoons to the Op-ed page, where they could more clearly be seen as distinct from the opinion of the newspaper itself...
...NLRB to approve the union's request, the board must determine that 30 per cent of the workers desire an election. In addition, the NLRB must rule that employees comprise a distinct "community of interests...
...NLRB took University attorneys aback by deciding that Med Area personnel did in fact compose a distinct group. At the time, Harvard lawyers felt sure the board would agree with their stance that the bargaining unit would be inappropriate because their interests were the same as the rest of the University's secretaries and technicians...
...union's first drive, the NLRB ruled that Med Area workers had distinct interests from other University clerical and technical personnel--a move that surprised Harvard officials...