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Members of United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 400 today voted overwhelmingly to ratify a new, three-year collective bargaining agreement with Giant and Safeway that preserves their health and retirement security and increases their wages.
Mission and Installation Contracting building
one of the oldest on Fort Sam Houston but soon to be among the most modern. Built between 1881 and 1885, is 98,414 square-foot Long Barracks and the old Brooke Army Medical Center symbolized an aging post after they were abandoned in the mid-'90s.
Buildings once used by the Army's most famous commanders, Generals John J. Pershing and Dwight D. Eisenhower among them, are now occupied by a new generation of leaders.
The Long Barracks opened in 1887, after the end of the Indian wars. It was born as a result of a closure round in which small Army posts were shuttered, with the missions going to Fort Sam and other garrisons.
Lux on Blux
175 Bluxome Street
San Francisco (Mission Bay)
2 BR, 2 BA Live/Work Loft
leased in contract
$3,500/mo
Top Floor Live/Work Loft in the Heart of Mission Bay and SOMA
• 2-story end corner home with skylights
• Peaceful views of the courtyard fountain with sunny western light
• 2 Full Bedrooms with 2 Full Bathrooms on two different levels
• Chef’s Kitchen with stainless appliances, microwave, Bosch dishwasher, granite, maple cabinetry, ample closets
• Brazilian Cherry hardwood floors
• Ceiling Fan
• Master Bedroom with sitting area and 2 closets with closet systems
• 2nd full-size Bedroom with window, closet, and barn-style sliding door
• In-unit Washer/Dryer
• One parking space is available for $250
• Excellent available storage near parking
Located at the intersection of SOMA, South Beach and Mission Bay, coveted amenities are all within walking distance. From gourmet grocery stores and world class dining to quaint corner cafes you have an all access pass to the best the city has to offer. Not to be under-played is the fine weather, convenience, and stimulation of the thriving SOMA neighborhood where you can work, play, wine, and dine in a banquet of eclectic offerings. The Embarcadero, Financial District, Waterfront Trail and Mission Bay are all within walking distance.
Contracting Parties' delegation attending the 6th Review Meeting of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management held at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria 21 May 2018
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Russian political activist and member of the anti-Putin punk rock group PUSSY RIOT, MARIA VLADIMIROVNA ALYOKHINA aka MASHA and MediaZona collaborator and reporter, ALEXANDRA BOGINO aka SASHA in Toronto as part of their conversation series. In picture: MARIA VLADIMIROVNA ALYOKHINA, ALEXANDRA BOGINO, DAMIAN ABRAHAM
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I was originally enrolled into the GETTY IMAGES collection as a contributor on April 9th 2012, and when links with FLICKR were terminated in March 2014, I was retained and fortunate enough to be signed up via a second contract, both of which have proved to be successful with sales of my photographs all over the world now handled exclusively by them.
On November 12th 2015 GETTY IMAGES unveiled plans for a new stills upload platform called ESP (Enterprise Submission Platform), to replace the existing 'Moment portal', and on November 13th I was invited to Beta test the new system prior to it being officially rolled out in December. ESP went live on Tuesday December 15th 2015 and has smoothed out the upload process considerably.
These days I take a far more leisurely approach to my photographic exploits, and having moved from professional Nikon equipment to consumer bodies and lenses, I travel light less constraints and more emphasis on the pure capture of the beauty that I see, more akin to my original persuits and goals some five decades previously when starting out. I would like to say a huge and heartfelt 'THANK YOU' to GETTY IMAGES, and the 20.748+ Million visitors to my FLICKR site.
***** Selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on July 19th 2017
CREATIVE RF gty.im/815199016 MOMENT OPEN COLLECTION**
This photograph became my 2,779th frame to be selected for sale in the Getty Images collection and I am very grateful to them for this wonderful opportunity.
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This photograph of a wild Barren-ground Caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) was taken at an altitude of Eight hundred and thirty nine meteres at 13:28pm on Wednesday May 11th 2016 on the Alaska Highway 97 at Muncho Lake, in the Muncho Lake Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada.
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Nikon D800 500mm 1/250s f/10.0 iso320 RAW (14Bit)Hand held with Nikkor VR vibration reduction on. Nikon back focus button enabled. AF-C Continuous point focus with 3-D tracking. Manual exposure. Matrix metering. Auto white balance.Nikon Fine tune on (+10).
Nikkor AF-S 200-500mm f/5.6G ED VR. Power Up 95mm UV filter. Nikon MB-D12 battery grip. Two Nikon EN-EL15 batteries. Nikon DK-17M 1.2x Magnifying Eyepiece. Nikon DK-19 soft rubber eyecup. Digi-Chip 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 SDXC card. Lowepro Transporter camera strap. Lowepro Vertex 200 AW Photo/ 15.4" Notebook Backpack camera bag. Nikon GP-1 GPS unit.
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LATITUDE: N 59d 1m 50.93s
LONGITUDE: W 125d 46m 36.23s
ALTITUDE: 842.00m
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Nikon D800 Firmware versions A 1.10 B 1.10 L 2.009 (Lens distortion control version 2)
HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU processor. AMD Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB SATA storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX2 Version 2.10.3 64bit. Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.
Cheryl Jones
Procurement Analyst
ACC Operations Group
U.S. Navy
Lieutenant Junior Grade
Supply Officer
USS Samuel Gompers
1988
Michael Phelps contract signing with Subway in New York, Tuesday, Nov., 18, 2008. ( Photo/Stuart Ramson)
the ability to choose and arrange the rainbow's spectrum can be transformed into an intellectual motif -- the rainbow of consciousness and the explosion of the individual within the whole.
all of us are born into this social contract of humanity. we don't have any choice about this. we are raised and reared within the boundaries of these social contracts.
currently, in this part of the world, there is a loosening of the moral and religious hold on sexuality and the range of the human heart's ability to be bigger than the limited and challenging gender roles of the past.
both sexes, men and women, are starting to understand themselves inside a much greater context and understanding than we think the past afforded.
it is just one of the outgrowths of a materialized capitalistic system of social contracting.
with moving imagery and invisible worlds now firmly entrenched across the country, the powerful syndrome of "the emperor who wore no clothes" can take full effect.
in the original tale, the narrative stops short on the exclamation of a small girl child who says, "but, mommy, he's not wearing any clothes!"
and of course, the moral right and the rigid uptight sexual judgers all come down on the period with their verdict -- which really is that the emperor has been cheated and defrauded in front of everyone.
but we already know of this lesson.
so perhaps we really should be asking where our true naked leaders are -- not the one who got cheated and defrauded and paraded in front of his subjects by clever tailors. we should be asking where our naked leaders of greatness and awesomeness and full human glory might be.
we really should be considering the idea that our leaders shouldn't need to be covered up in metaphorical or physical buffers and boundaries.
but our leaders are weapons manufacturers and drug dealers and pornographers.
our leaders spread disease and pestilence and cause wars in other countries.
our leaders are not rainbow warriors. they are gold and diamond collectors. they use time and drugs to rule and reign. they use entertainment and news to delight and bemuse.
we are the fire children.
we love our energy.
but we don't worship the sun like we used to in the alleged past.
we worship ourselves.
and this worship of the self is the exploding dahlia.
we are these dahlias floating through space. and each of us explode one day.
I sure hope Zachary is reading it carefully this time!
Our Daily Challenge - October 23, 2013 - "Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction"
Did You Know…. that Rin Tin Tin (1918–1932) - the first Hollywood dog star - signed all 22 of his movie contracts with a paw print?
(I wonder if that means he could have been sued for breach of contract?)
FWIW: Here's his Wikipedia link:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rin_Tin_Tin
… and IMDB (Internet Movie Database) link:
Daily Dog Challenge "723. What's Brewing?"
Kona Longboard Lager :)
Stop on by Zachary and Henry's blog: bzdogs.com
some natural bubbles some photoshopped in.
Side note... dad let him use his hair gel in the am hence the Gene Wilder look.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and the third-most-populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is also the most populous city in the Midwestern United States. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, the second-most-populous county in the US, with a small portion of the northwest side of the city extending into DuPage County near O'Hare Airport. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland. At nearly 10 million people, the metropolitan area is the third most populous in the United States.
Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900, less than 30 years after the great fire, Chicago was the fifth-largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper.
Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, education, technology, telecommunications, and transportation. It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts, issued by the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market in the world, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures alone. Depending on the particular year, the city's O'Hare International Airport is routinely ranked as the world's fifth or sixth busiest airport according to tracked data by the Airports Council International. The region also has the largest number of federal highways and is the nation's railroad hub. Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and it ranked seventh in the entire world in the 2017 Global Cities Index. The Chicago area has one of the highest gross domestic products (GDP) in the world, generating $689 billion in 2018. In addition, the city has one of the world's most diversified and balanced economies, with no single industry employing more than 14% of the workforce. Chicago is home to several Fortune 500 companies, including Allstate, Boeing, Caterpillar, Exelon, Kraft Heinz, McDonald's, Mondelez International, Sears, United Airlines Holdings, and Walgreens.
Chicago's 58 million domestic and international visitors in 2018 made it the second most visited city in the nation, as compared with New York City's 65 million visitors in 2018. The city was ranked first in the 2018 Time Out City Life Index, a global quality of life survey of 15,000 people in 32 cities. Landmarks in the city include Millennium Park, Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Campus, the Willis (Sears) Tower, Grant Park, the Museum of Science and Industry, and Lincoln Park Zoo. Chicago's culture includes the visual arts, literature, film, theatre, comedy (especially improvisational comedy), food, and music, particularly jazz, blues, soul, hip-hop, gospel, and electronic dance music including house music. Of the area's many colleges and universities, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago are classified as "highest research" doctoral universities. Chicago has professional sports teams in each of the major professional leagues, including two Major League Baseball teams.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field_Museum_of_Natural_History
The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world. The museum maintains its status as a premier natural-history museum through the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, as well as due to its extensive scientific-specimen and artifact collections. The diverse, high-quality permanent exhibitions, which attract up to two million visitors annually, range from the earliest fossils to past and current cultures from around the world to interactive programming demonstrating today's urgent conservation needs. The museum is named in honor of its first major benefactor, the department-store magnate Marshall Field. The museum and its collections originated from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and the artifacts displayed at the fair.
The museum maintains a temporary exhibition program of traveling shows as well as in-house produced topical exhibitions. The professional staff maintains collections of over 24 million specimens and objects that provide the basis for the museum’s scientific-research programs. These collections include the full range of existing biodiversity, gems, meteorites, fossils, and rich anthropological collections and cultural artifacts from around the globe. The museum's library, which contains over 275,000 books, journals, and photo archives focused on biological systematics, evolutionary biology, geology, archaeology, ethnology and material culture, supports the museum’s academic-research faculty and exhibit development. The academic faculty and scientific staff engage in field expeditions, in biodiversity and cultural research on every continent, in local and foreign student training, and in stewardship of the rich specimen and artifact collections. They work in close collaboration with public programming exhibitions and education initiatives.
"La Stecca è un imponente immobile facente parte del complesso del convento di San Francesco che è diventato la residenza universitaria di Imt Alti Studi Lucca grazie all’intervento di ristrutturazione effettuato dalla Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca.
Le 34 camere di questo prestigioso progetto sono state completamente realizzate e arredate da Mazzali.
Mazzali ha fornito tutti gli elementi di arredo e su misura, dagli armadi, ai letti, agli scrittoi, coniugando modernità e contemporaneità delle scelte d'arredo con il gusto e l'attenzione che l'ambiente imponeva. Toni grigi su rovere tinto all'acqua, materiali esclusivamente in multistrato e tamburato caratterizzano il prodotto.
L'arredo ha proposto soluzioni innovative per l'armadio con frigo colonna, sistema di condizionamento, per lo scrittoio dalle linee rigorose, i letti con elementi in essenza e pelle.
Operational Contract Support Joint Exercise 2016 provides training across the spectrum of OCS readiness from requirements and development of warfighter staff integration and synchronization through contract execution supporting the Joint Force Commander. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder/Released)
Contracting Parties' delegation attending the 6th Review Meeting of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management held at the IAEA headquarters in Vienna, Austria 21 May 2018
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has announced that Edge Innovate (NI) has won business worth around £2 million in South Africa.
The Minister, who is leading an Invest NI trade mission to South Africa, announced the new business during a visit to the Dungannon company’s stand at the Bauma Africa exhibition in Johannesburg.
Arlene Foster is pictured at Bauma Africa with Darragh Cullen, Managing Director,Edge Innovate and Niall McKeever, Edge Innovate.
The contract for the Pattullo Bridge replacement has been awarded, creating good jobs and training opportunities for workers who will help build the toll-free crossing to better connect communities in the Lower Mainland. Read more: news.gov.bc.ca/21556
René François Ghislain Magritte, 21 November 1898 – 15 August 1967) was a Belgian surrealist artist, who became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. His imagery has influenced pop art, minimalist art, and conceptual art.
Magritte's earliest paintings, which date from about 1915, were Impressionistic in style. During 1916–1918, he studied at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, under Constant Montald, but found the instruction uninspiring. He also took classes at the Académie Royale from the painter and poster designer Gisbert Combaz. The paintings he produced during 1918–1924 were influenced by Futurism and by the figurative Cubism of Metzinger.
From December 1920 until September 1921, Magritte served in the Belgian infantry in the Flemish town of Beverlo near Leopoldsburg. In 1922, Magritte married Georgette Berger, whom he had met as a child in 1913. Also during 1922, the poet Marcel Lecomte showed Magritte a reproduction of Giorgio de Chirico's The Song of Love (painted in 1914). The work brought Magritte to tears; he described this as "one of the most moving moments of my life: my eyes saw thought for the first time." The paintings of the Belgian symbolist painter William Degouve de Nuncques have also been noted as an influence on Magritte, specifically the former's painting The Blind House (1892) and Magritte's variations or series on The Empire of Lights.
In 1922–1923, Magritte worked as a draughtsman in a wallpaper factory, and was a poster and advertisement designer until 1926, when a contract with Galerie Le Centaure in Brussels made it possible for him to paint full-time. In 1926, Magritte produced his first surreal painting, The Lost Jockey (Le jockey perdu), and held his first solo exhibition in Brussels in 1927. Critics heaped abuse on the exhibition.
Depressed by the failure, he moved to Paris where he became friends with André Breton and became involved in the Surrealist group. An illusionistic, dream-like quality is characteristic of Magritte's version of Surrealism. He became a leading member of the movement, and remained in Paris for three years. In 1929 he exhibited at Goemans Gallery in Paris with Salvador Dalí, Jean Arp, de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Picabia, Picasso and Yves Tanguy.
On 15 December 1929 he participated in the last publication of La Revolution Surrealiste No. 12, where he published his essay "Les mots et les images", where words play with images in sync with his work The Treachery of Images.
Galerie Le Centaure closed at the end of 1929, ending Magritte's contract income. Having made little impact in Paris, Magritte returned to Brussels in 1930 and resumed working in advertising.[10] He and his brother, Paul, formed an agency which earned him a living wage. In 1932, Magritte joined the Communist Party, which he would periodically leave and rejoin for several years. In 1936 he had his first solo exhibition in the United States at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, followed by an exposition at the London Gallery in 1938.
During the early stages of his career, the British surrealist patron Edward James allowed Magritte to stay rent-free in his London home, where Magritte studied architecture and painted. James is featured in two of Magritte's works painted in 1937, Le Principe du Plaisir (The Pleasure Principle) and La Reproduction Interdite, a painting also known as Not to Be Reproduced.
During the German occupation of Belgium in World War II he remained in Brussels, which led to a break with Breton. He briefly adopted a colorful, painterly style in 1943–44, an interlude known as his "Renoir period", as a reaction to his feelings of alienation and abandonment that came with living in German-occupied Belgium.
In 1946, renouncing the violence and pessimism of his earlier work, he joined several other Belgian artists in signing the manifesto Surrealism in Full Sunlight. During 1947–48, Magritte's "Vache period," he painted in a provocative and crude Fauve style. During this time, Magritte supported himself through the production of fake Picassos, Braques, and de Chiricos—a fraudulent repertoire he was later to expand into the printing of forged banknotes during the lean postwar period. This venture was undertaken alongside his brother Paul and fellow Surrealist and "surrogate son" Marcel Mariën, to whom had fallen the task of selling the forgeries. At the end of 1948, Magritte returned to the style and themes of his pre-war surrealistic art.
In France, Magritte's work has been showcased in a number of retrospective exhibitions, most recently at the Centre Georges Pompidou (2016–2017). In the United States his work has been featured in three retrospective exhibitions: at the Museum of Modern Art in 1965, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1992, and again at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013. An exhibition entitled "The Fifth Season" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2018 focused on the work of his later years.
Politically, Magritte stood to the left, and retained close ties to the Communist Party, even in the post-war years. However, he was critical of the functionalist cultural policy of the Communist left, stating that "Class consciousness is as necessary as bread; but that does not mean that workers must be condemned to bread and water and that wanting chicken and champagne would be harmful. (...) For the Communist painter, the justification of artistic activity is to create pictures that can represent mental luxury." While remaining committed to the political left, he thus advocated a certain autonomy of art. Spiritually, Magritte was an agnostic.
Popular interest in Magritte's work rose considerably in the 1960s, and his imagery has influenced pop, minimalist, and conceptual art. In 2005 he was 9th in the Walloon version of De Grootste Belg (The Greatest Belgian); in the Flemish version he was 18th.
Conceptual image of a man signing a mortgage or insurance contract or the deed of sale when buying a new house or selling his existing one with a small wooden model of a house alongside
Last ride not just with Arriva on this route but very likely the last time I'll get to ride these older hybrids. Because they're too old for a new contract and the earliest ones are now 15 years old, there isn't really anywhere else to send them other than the withdrawal pile.
Even though my ride back up constantly stalled and felt like it was in limp-home mode, it doesn't take away from the fact these early hybrids have served me really well overall. Used this on the 76 and 243, then did the same when they got refurbed for Brixton (BN) routes from the 133 to the 319. Shame they never got blinded for the 59.
Some of the LJ62-reg hybrids will probably return to WN or AD for their respective routes but from tomorrow, Arriva will only have four routes in Brixton; the 2, 59, 250 and the 432. It'll strange considering they have dominated the area for quite a while but it'll be Abellio's turn to steal the glory.
LJ60AXD (HV12) rides off into the sunset on its final day to Holborn.
27th November 2024, saw me out in Aldermaston Coach Lines TEMSA HD13 YJ24 AYK on a college run from Andover to Basingstoke followed by a school swimming contract to Reading's Rivermead Leisure Centre.
William “Bill” Simons, president of the Washington Teachers Union, and Minnie Woodson, president of the D. C. School Board sign contract documents October 30, 1979 that end a dispute that resulted in a 23-day strike earlier in the year.
The strike came during the early days of the Marion Barry administration ,and though the school board was responsible and not the mayor, Barry intervened to settle the strike.
The strike ended after the school board agreed to leave the existing contract in place while negotiations continued. A fact finding panel later set the basis for agreement issuing recommendations on all disputed items.
Further negotiations narrowed the differences both sides had with the fact finding recommendations until an agreement was reached.
Wages were not an issue at the time because they were set by Congress. Some of the key union demands that were met that were different from the fact finders recommendations included binding arbitration for “conditional” evaluations in addition to the then current process permitting grievances only for “unsatisfactory” evaluations.
Other issues settled in the union’s favor that differed from the recommendations included a neutrality policy on the union’s request for a judge to reduce the fines against the union for its illegal strike and an agreement by the school board not to discipline any teachers for taking part in the strike (unless the teacher was alleged to have engaged in other illegal activity).
Simons was the first president of the union during the period after the union gained collective bargaining rights and served for 25 years During his tenure he was repeatedly opposed by teachers who felt he was too accommodating to the city’s political leadership and too autocratic within the union.
Some excerpts from William Simons’ Washington Post obituary:
“William H. Simons, who as the first president of the Washington Teachers Union led teachers strikes, negotiated contracts and played a pivotal role in the selection of the union as the teachers’ collective bargaining agent, died December 7 [2016] in Atlanta. He was 92.
“Mr. Simons was president of the WTU for 25 years before being voted out of office in 1991.
“In a 1979 profile, The Washington Post said he ‘has crusaded to change the image of teachers from one of nice old ladies and milquetoast men who aren’t good enough to do anything but teach.’
“’The image Simons has sought for teachers is one of tough, unionized workers who are not going to accept a retirement dinner or nice words from a former student in place of a good salary and strong influence in administrative decisions that govern what goes on in the classroom.’
“William Henry Simons was born in Washington on June 1, 1924, and was one of eight children. His father was a U.S. government messenger. He graduated from Dunbar High School in 1940, served in the Army during World War II and received a Bronze Star Medal. In 1947, he graduated from what then was Miner Teachers College and began teaching social studies at Banneker Junior High School.
“He joined Local 27 of the American Federation of Teachers in 1952, at the time an all-black teachers union. It later merged with a white AFT local to form a racially integrated local of the AFT, which then became the Washington Teachers' Union. In 1965 he left his teaching job at Banneker to become full-time union president.
In 1967, Mr. Simons orchestrated a victory of the WTU over the D.C. Education Association as the collective- bargaining agent for the city's teachers. At the time, the WTU was perceived as more militant at the bargaining table. Mr. Simons called it an organization of ‘working teachers.’
“The Education Association, he said, was ‘a professional group for administrators.’
Mr. Simons would lead teacher strikes in 1972 and 1979 as well as organize a march on Capitol Hill in 1968 to demand a pay raise from Congress, which set salaries.
“He battled school administrators over a plan to set teachers' pay on the basis of their students' performance on standardized tests. He accused some administrators of harming students by supporting ‘social promotions,’ the practice of moving students up one grade each year when classroom teachers had given them failing grades.
“He fought proposals for longer work days and longer school years and denounced critics who claimed that union protections had safeguarded the jobs of incompetent teachers.
“He said he asked only for ‘due process . . . what any employee deserves. We're not protecting anybody. We just want administrators to make their case against teachers instead of fulfilling vendettas. There are more bad administrators than bad teachers.’
“Mr. Simons was defeated for reelection as union president in 1985 but regained the office two years later. He was defeated again in 1991 amid complaints that the union had become moribund and resistant to change under his leadership. He then retired.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmzRgYMk
Photo by Ray Lustig. The image is courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
Russian political activist and member of the anti-Putin punk rock group PUSSY RIOT, MARIA VLADIMIROVNA ALYOKHINA aka MASHA and MediaZona collaborator and reporter, ALEXANDRA BOGINO aka SASHA in Toronto as part of their conversation series. In picture: MARIA VLADIMIROVNA ALYOKHINA, ALEXANDRA BOGINO, DAMIAN ABRAHAM
Russian political activist and member of the anti-Putin punk rock group PUSSY RIOT, MARIA VLADIMIROVNA ALYOKHINA aka MASHA and MediaZona collaborator and reporter, ALEXANDRA BOGINO aka SASHA in Toronto as part of their conversation series. In picture: MARIA VLADIMIROVNA ALYOKHINA, ALEXANDRA BOGINO, DAMIAN ABRAHAM
Kyle Downey, Heavy Equipment Operator for Civil Works Contracting, (CWC) scoops dirt to load a high rail rotary dump truck for repair of washouts on railway leading into the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point, N.C., Oct. 3, 2018. The installation is a critical logistics hub used to store and ship Defense Department ammunition, dangerous cargo and explosives throughout the world. This work is part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers first contract aimed at the recovery of the installation after damages caused by Hurricane Florence Sept. 14 and 15. The contract was executed in record time; less than two weeks from assessment to construction. - U.S. Army photo by Russell Wicke
Contract helicopter and crew perform maintenance on their aircraft at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Smokejumper Base/ SEAT Base/ Helitack Base in the McCall Municipal Airport, in McCall, Idaho, on Friday, July 26, 2013. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.