Sports unions employee a 'empowerment unionism' strategy that sees the contract as a basic framework that sets some minimum thresholds and establishes a procedure for resolving disputes. Workers are free to negotiate their own salaries.
The UAW agreed to a backroom deal with Columbia University that would limit the right of graduate employees to strike for 17 months and severely weaken their bargaining power to negotiate a first contract.
The union will provide the turkey, potatoes and gravy, and, strikers will bring in side dishes for a Thanksgiving Day meal in front of the Moana Surfrider Hotel.
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