Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practice employed to a certain degree throughout Latin America. The history of the idea dates to a student strike and subsequent convention in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1919. Protesting against the ancient and restrictive control of university life by the Church, the Cordoba students staged a noisy walkout against scholastic officialdom. The result was an independent charter for the school. The student congress that took place in Cordoba under the new grant cited the principle of university autonomy as the end of all educational reform...
Space agency officials expressed surprise at Field's walkout over what NASA considered a relatively minor point. In any case, other bidders were sure to renew their interest. One interested shopper: LIFE...
...third week, the seven-union walkout led by the Newspaper Guild against the morning Advertiser and afternoon Star-Bulletin, Hawaii's only two island-wide dailies, has become a contest of wills between hardheaded Financier Chinn Ho, who dominates both papers, and Jack Hall, the tough boss of militant unionism in the islands. At first the unions wanted an across-the-board pay raise of $10 a week. The publishers offered a sliding scale downward from $3.50. The gap narrowed to the point where there was only $2.75 separating their positions. But negotiations broke down, and the strike...
...February 1962. The continuing unrest seems likely to postpone independence indefinitely -at least under Jagan. By last week, he was making desperate attempts to come to terms with the strikers. But the workers still stayed off the job, and the mounting opposition was determined to use the marathon walkout to topple his government...
Latin American labor unions are clamoring for still more stretching of the available work. Last week in Argentina, where payroll padding is a costly legacy from Perón's days, 2,000,000 unionists staged a paralyzing one-day walkout in hopes of pressuring the government to create still more jobs. And in Venezuela, labor unions celebrated a new contract virtually forbidding U.S.-owned oil companies to furlough any men despite automation...