Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just as good or better this year. Meantime, the company's domestic-market share climbed from 18.2% last year to 20.1% in July, and some Ford plants are humming along at more than 100% of normal capacity. Facing such rosy prospects, Stanley Surma, Ford's director of labor relations, vowed that the firm would "come out with a job-security plan that addresses the concerns of the employees." The term strike, he added, was a "bad word...
...that last month engaged South Africa's gold and coal mineowners in the nation's longest strike. While the union angered some members by settling for the same package of 15%-to-23% pay raises that the companies first offered, the strike marked a turning point in black-white labor relations. Calling the walkout a "dress rehearsal" for a strike next year, Ramaphosa pledged to "continue our fight for a living wage until all our demands have been met, and 1988 is the year that we will receive what is demanded...
...years after the government gave full recognition to black unions in 1979, Ramaphosa collected his law degree and joined the legal staff of the Council of South African Unions, a black labor organization that was trying to form a national black miners' union. Ramaphosa became the mine workers' general secretary the following year and learned a string of hard lessons when he led three strikes that lasted no longer than 48 hours each. Yet the union's membership grew steadily, and its tactics became bolder. Said Johannesburg's Business Day of last month's walkout: "The union demonstrated an impressive...
Even as Roh and Kim chatted amiably last week, the optimistic mood was disrupted by labor violence. More than 700 disputes continue to fester following a rash of strikes that first broke out in July. At a Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, where walkouts resumed after wage talks collapsed, a striker died and three others were seriously injured when a driver, whom they had beaten, got back into his truck and ran them over. Some 13,000 strikers occupied the yard, smashing windows, setting fire to cars and battling riot police. Late in the week police raided Hyundai...
There is, of course, no formal Cognoscenti Caucus. But Labor Day is a rough benchmark, as the candidates move from backers' auditions to full-fledged Broadway tryouts. The cast in both parties seems set; only Democratic Congresswoman Pat Schroeder of Colorado is waiting in the wings actively considering a late entry. The candidates (eight Democrats, with Schroeder, and six Republicans) have had months to master their lines, crafting glib answers to almost every conceivable question and perfecting a sincere this-is-who-I-am stump speech. The early-bird voters in Iowa and New Hampshire for the most part have...