Word: workers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Brown, deputy campaign director of the campaign of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), added, "The blue-collar worker's vote had nothing to do with ideology. It was a bread-and-butter issue...
...Paul Smith, manager of custodial services for Buildings and Grounds (B & G), "threatened" Bonislawski on April 5 for attending a grievance hearing to represent a worker, quoting Smith as saying, "You better watch your step...
...this case, the company is MASCO--in other cases, it is Harvard Real Estate and, who knows, maybe Veritech--and its business is producing power. And true, MASCO's temporary troubles are over--the workers are back on the job. The incident, however, is symptomatic of a disease familiar to Harvard's corporate offspring: insensitivity. "We've got nothing against the University and its power plant." one worker said as he rubbed his hands together. "It's just that Harvard doesn't know how to handle its employees." "The strike should never have happened," a Harvard official said after...
...former soldier, Teng once wanted to become a factory worker so that he could earn a steady urban wage. But now he is enthusiastic about his prospects on the farm. "I have many things already," he says. "A bicycle, a watch. We have a sewing machine. At the end of this year, I will first return the money I borrowed from the brigade. My goal next year? To buy a television set. It will cost 400 yuan [$280]. After that our income will grow, and life will keep on getting better...
With no independent press, it is impossible for a truly dissident author to publish works that go beyond the vague limits set by party authorities. Yet Tsao Yu is optimistic, and understandably so. He remembers that even during the '50s, plays had to have "workers, peasants or soldiers in them." In the standard stereotyped drama, he recalls, "you'd have a hero who becomes a model worker, then gets wounded, but comes back to work before his wounds are healed. Seeing 100 plays was the same as seeing one play. But now things are changing, and we feel...