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...rest with the International Olympic Committee, is of vital significance to the pride and profit of each parvenu sport's participants, impresarios, bureaucrats and merchandisers. Getting a sport recognized takes years of lobbying and piles of documents. Moments after he won the first ever moguls skiing gold medal, Edgar Grospiron of France shifted from exultation to exhortation. "After this," he told the press last week, "we will have to continue to work hard so that the other free-style skiing disciplines, ballet and aerials, also become medal events...
...Grospiron said the possibility of a nationwide walkout remains "very real." He added that the union's 12-member bargaining policy committee yesterday rejected more than 20 oil company offers that proposed a two-year agreement and percentage increases in each year of the agreement...
...Grospiron, president of the union, said the strike was unauthorized, but was neither illegal nor a wildcat strike since the contract had expired...
...chance. According to union officials, it has counseled the industry's executives to be prepared for a long strike and reportedly threatened to reject their bids for drilling leases on federally owned land if they agree to a settlement that busts the guidelines. Says OCAW President Alvin Grospiron angrily: "This kind of interference helps to promote strikes." An industry official in effect agrees: "The guidelines have complicated the situation because the size of the settlement has become a matter of pride with the union. A strike is now more likely...
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