Wilson Foods union approves contract in Cedar Rapids
Union members at Wilson Foods ratified a new contract Sunday amid duress claims and threats to sell Cedar Rapids and other plants. The deal ends wage disputes with base pay set at 8.00 for production and 8.50 for maintenance, with reductions in holidays and vacations and a contract through September 1985. Monday afternoon return to work expected, followed by slaughter and processing crew shifts based on hog purchases.
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Wilson Foods
Cedar Rapids
Oklahoma City
Logansport
Ind
Garry Zimmerman
United Food and Commercial Workers Union
P-3
Zimmerman
UFCW
National Labor Relations Board
Cherokee
Iowa
Albert Lea
Mike Wilbur
Don Nielsen
Wilson Foods Management
Martin Luther King
George Washington
Wilson
San Andreas of Midwest Most Dangerous U.S. Fault
New Madrid Missouri sits near a fault zone scientists call the San Andreas of the Midwest. The 100 mile long, jagged fault stretches toward Marked Tree Arkansas and is the central United States most seismically active area. Geologists warn a major quake could affect a wide region with damage exceeding California quakes.
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Los Angeles Times
New Madrid
Mississippi River
United States
U.S
Midwest
California
Marked Tree
Ark
Central
St. Louis University
Otto Nuttli
U.S. Geological Survey
San Francisco
Nuttle
Pentecostalist family wins 23 year emigration battle to Israel
The Vashchenko family of five plus relatives received permission to leave the Soviet Union for Israel after a prolonged protest at the U S Embassy in Moscow. Tass reported the decision. the Chmykhalovs were not mentioned. Lydia Vashchenko, aged 32, had been allowed to travel to Israel, while other children remained in Siberia.
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Gazette Wire Services
Moscow
Pyotr Vashchenko
Soviet Union
Israel
Vashchenko
U.S
Tass
Timofei
Maria Chmykhalov
Vashchenkos
Chmykhal
Ovs
Chernogorsk
Siberia
Lydia
Football fans gaslight over a ball that won t bounce
A humorous remark contrasts a wife s lack of interest in football with the spectacle of 22 grown men fighting over a ball that rarely bounces right highlighting the joke about sports devotion and gender perspectives.
Walesa defies quit talk as Solidarity leader
Lech Walesa told ABC News he will not quit leading the outlawed Solidarity movement in Poland and urged citizens to push the government to revive free unions. He said he felt stronger after a meeting with Pope John Paul II and declined to detail the papal visit. The Vatican later disowned a front page editorial suggesting the pope aimed to ease his exit.
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Poland
Lech Walesa
Solidarity Labor Movement
Walesa
Gdansk
ABC News
Solidarity
John Paul II
Vatican
L’osservatore Romano
Valesa
Virgilio Levi
Colorado River at 66-year high floods Grand Junction
The Colorado River reached its highest level in 66 years at Grand Junction Colorado forcing 1250 residents to flee and closing an Interstate highway. Flooding extended to parts of Colorado Nevada Arizona and California with evacuations in Mexico and a rafting accident at Grand Canyon National Park causing fatalities and injuries.
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Colorado
Rocky Mountain
Grand Junction
Colo
Nevada
Arizona
California
Mexico
Grand Canyon National Park
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
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Arkansas
Metro
Abby
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Rosevale
Riverside Dike
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