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Executives at the Greyhound bus company felt not a moment's hesitation or doubt. The minute 9,000 of its employees around the country walked off their jobs three weeks ago, the Dallas-based company began to hire 700 drivers as permanent replacements for strikers. Within seven days Greyhound reported that ridership on its buses was back to 38% of normal levels and rising. As the company trained additional nonunion substitutes, dispirited drivers and other striking workers watched their jobs begin to evaporate. Every day they walked the picket line, it seemed, fewer would have posts to return...
...Amalgamated Council of Greyhound Local Unions disavowed responsibility for the Florida shooting, but a union spokesperson in Hartford said he believed the Connecticut shooting was motivated by the strike against the only nationwide bus company...
...Currey, Greyhound's chair and chief executive officer, and Frank Schmeider, its president, flew to Jacksonville early yesterday from Dallas after learning of the Florida shooting...
...eight passengers were hurt when someone fired a bullet through the front of a Greyhound bus Sunday night in south Jacksonville. The passengers were injured by fiberglass and shrapnel...
When asked if he thought the shot had come from a striker, Currey said: "I pray that it is not true. I hope that it is not true. I do not want to believe that anybody involved in Greyhound would do such as thing...