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...long ago, Greyhound's ironfisted tactic would have seemed overly harsh. Just last year, Texas Air chief Frank Lorenzo faced withering criticism for hiring replacements soon after Eastern Air Lines machinists went on strike. But in the past few years the same technique has been used against flight attendants, printers, papermill employees, restaurant workers and others -- both in the public and the private sector. In West Virginia some 15,000 teachers went on strike two weeks ago in a dispute over pay raises. Last week Governor Gaston Caperton suggested that county officials should begin firing the teachers and replacing them...
When strikes deteriorate into shoot-outs and slugfests, little hope for rational compromise remains. Even as he prepared to resume talks with Greyhound's unions over the weekend, company Chairman Fred Currey accused them of "violence, terrorism and intimidation" and said he expected little progress. Bitter face-offs between management and labor are increasingly frequent, with good faith in ever shorter supply. And for more and more workers, the time-honored concept of labor unity means sharing the pain without the gains...
...Greyhound and elsewhere, workers who walk out learn they might not be welcome back. -- Investigators complain that they lack the man power to nab crooked savings and loan executives...
...When you've got no car, when the airfare is too high (or there's no airport at all), when the railroad tracks have long since gone to weed, there's always the Greyhound bus. It will get you to the next town or around the country, and it will take you to obscure places you call home and away from places you never want to see again. Planes and trains serve 500 communities; Greyhound serves 9,500. For many Americans who live in small towns, when there's no Greyhound, there's no exit...
...surely seemed that way in Bishop, Calif., since the strike began two weeks ago. With its own airport, Bishop (pop. 3,500) is better off than many stops in Greyhound's network. Still, only one flight, on a 19-passenger plane, leaves Bishop daily for Los Angeles, and at $125 one way, not everyone can afford a ticket. Many people in the town -- 40% of whom are elderly -- don't have cars. When they want to get out of Bishop, they go down to the terminal and take the 1:30 p.m. Greyhound to Los Angeles (6 1/2 hours southwest...