Word: labor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staying home from work in greater numbers than at any time since the nationwide shutdown in May 1968. The strikes constituted the first real challenge to Pompidou's authority and could well lead to an early showdown between his fledgling government and France's huge, Communist-dominated labor unions...
...ahead for Pompidou. That became evident when Georges Séguy, the Communist leader of France's 1,500,000-member Confédération Générale du Travail, warned that Pompidou's term of office "might well be short" because of labor unrest. Without mentioning Seguy by name, Pompidou responded with noticeable speed-and anger. He was convinced, he told his Cabinet last week, that workers "will not be duped and will not let themselves be drawn into irrelevant or violent actions." In any case, he warned, the government would take every step...
...France's aeronautical industry. But for lack of more mundane skills, particularly in the important areas of engineering and middle-echelon management, French products cannot compete with Italian refrigerators and washing machines, Dutch toasters and transistors or West German machine tools. What is more, with 17% of its labor force still working on farms (compared to 11 % for West Germany) and 50% of its exports accounted for by farm products, France simply is not the competitor for world industrial markets that it should...
...source of the gloom was not new. In the past eight years, labor disputes have four times brought the Met to the brink of disaster. In 1961 its opening was ensured at the last moment deus ex machina (when President Kennedy intervened). But this time, New Yorkers were realizing with shock, there might be no opening at all. Worried, tired and gaunt, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing told TIME, "We don't know where to go. It is now a matter of life and death...
Saber Rattling. On the surface it had all looked like part of a familiar cycle-labor v. management saber rattling over money, hours, work conditions -all capable of rational settlement. But the talks between the Met and eleven unions were hampered by past rancors and lack of trust. Bombay-born Zubin Mehta, music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a regular conductor at the Met, last week scornfully characterized the negotiations as an "Oriental-bazaar style of bargaining." Bing speaks openly of the "sheer demagoguery" of his adversaries, and is furious that they don't take pity...