BSD Reaches Settlement After Contract Dispute
A settlement was reached at 11 p.m. Wednesday in a 16 month contract dispute between teachers and directors of the Bennington School District. Superintendent George A. Sleeman said he was absolutely certain the contract will be signed within several weeks. No referendum. A teachers rally scheduled for this afternoon was postponed.
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George A. Sleeman
Teachers Association
David Palmer
David Allen
Thomas R. Haley Sr
Haley
Allen
Supt
Sleeman
George
Action Committee
Non-teaching staff join union in Mt Anthony district
Secretaries and aides in the Mt Anthony Union School district voted 14 to 2 to be represented by the faculty bargaining agent. The move follows a yearlong dispute stemming from an unfair labor practice charge over the firing of five custodians tied to organizing efforts. The board was ordered to reinstate and compensate the workers, with appeals ongoing.
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Thomas Gallagher
Southwest Vermont Education Association
SVEA
State Labor Relations Board
Mt. Anthony
Vermont Supreme Court
Mr. Anthony
Barth Vander Els
Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union
Finance Committee
Robert J. Dimke
Patrick Burke
Lawrence Chaffey
Bernard McDonald
Joel Raetz
Donald Hayes
Labor Relations Board
Labor Board
Loretta F. Connell
Vermont to establish state lottery commission
Vermont Governor Richard Snelling signed a measure to create a five member lottery commission to plan and operate a state run sweepstakes. The law takes effect in July and Snelling will name the commissioners, ending Vermont status as the last New England state without a lottery after Rep. Norman Reed's years long push.
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UPI
Vermont
New England
Richard Snelling
Norman Reed
Hartford
Snelling
Lottery Commission
Carter seeks power to penalize nuclear treaty violators
President Carter asks Congress to grant authority to impose sanctions on nations found breaking nonproliferation accords. Powell said penalties would be used with restraint, including possible cut of uranium fuel, while avoiding coercive aims. The move comes amid global moves on breeder tech and talks with 14 exporting nations in London. Israel and India, not party to the treaty, press for fuel and reactors.
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Carter
Congress
Jody Powell
Powell
West Germany
Brazil
United States
India
Israel
Ofee
International Atomic Energy Agency
U.S
Dimona
Negev
U S and Cuba Reach Fishing Rights Deal
The United States and Cuba announced a two part agreement on fishing rights in waters off both nations. Reached in New York and Havana, the deal covers overlapping waters off the Florida coast and may allow Cuban boats limited access within the U S 200 mile limit. Details were not immediately announced.
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UPI
United States
Cuba
U.S
New York
Havana
Florida
Terence
Track security guards unionize at Green Mountain Racetrack
Thirteen of fourteen guards at Green Mountain Racetrack voted 10 to 3 Wednesday to join United Security International Union. Vermont Labor Relations Board will verify results. This marks the first Vermont unionization for security guards. Union founder Ronald Sage of Readsboro and William Mazanec, Deerfield Specialty Paper Co. employees, describe aims of higher wages, pensions, and strong collective bargaining. Negotiations with track management pending. Green Mountain Racetrack General Manager Daniel Laughlin acknowledged the unionization.
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Green Mountain Racetrack
United Security International Union
Vermont Labor Relations Board
Vermont
United Security
Ronald Sage
Readsboro
William Mazanec
Deerfield Specialty Paper Co
Monroe
Mass
United Paperworkers International Union
Afl-Cio
Robert Clark
Vermont State Labor Council
Green Mountain
Taft-Hartley
Sage
Pany
Space solar power satellite could power cities by 2025
Dr. Roger Johnson told the 14th Space Congress that a five gigawatt space solar plant, weighing 75,000 tons and five to seven miles square, could beam energy to Earth by microwave at about 10 cents per kilowatt hour. Development could cost 15 to 20 billion dollars with a prototype by the late 1990s.
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Fla
UPI
Earth
Space Congress
Roger Johnson
Manned Space
Grumman Aerospace Corp
Johnson
United States
NASA
Space Shuttle
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