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...striking teachers, most of whom belong to the Burlington Educators Association (BEA), went on strike September 20. They charged that the school committee had failed to bargain in good faith. The strike forced two schools to close...
Paul Good, negotiator for the school committee, disclosed yesterday that the other negotiators include representatives of the BEA, the school committee, and attorneys for each side...
...Four BEA officers were jailed Wednesday on charges of violating a court order of September 5 that had barred their union from striking against the Burlington schools...
Understandably, then, the BEA deal was signed in London amid an almost cloying exchange of mutually admiring remarks between BEA Chairman Henry Marking and Lockheed Chairman Daniel Haughton. BEA will pay $147 million for delivery of the six planes starting in the fall of 1974. Marking denied that his nationalized line was prodded into the deal by the British government in order to expand the market for engines made by the government-owned Rolls-Royce. Even so, BEA is not likely for many years to phase out its fleet of British-made Trident jets and switch wholesale to the TriStar...
Money Needed. Moreover, the BEA options to buy six more planes are less than they seem. Marking noted that his airline would exercise its option only for a "variant" of the present version, very possibly a longer-range plane with a more powerful Rolls-Royce engine. If Lockheed can produce the new model, the British government has promised to provide 75% of the $76 million that Rolls-Royce would need to develop the engines. But Lockheed will have to put up an estimated $80 million to $100 million to develop the modified plane, and it does not now have...