Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more galvanizing reason is economic performance in an age when a skilled labor force is increasingly important. Tsongas would like to refocus the debate over education funding towards the issue of international economic competition...
...Eastern conflict is particularly significant because it has been steeped in dirty tactics by a management that seeks to secure profits before equitable working conditions or even economic stability. This strike represents one of the largest labor-management disputes of this decade--one that will help to determine the boundaries and the precedent for many conflicts to come...
Most insidious, however, is the advertisement's deceptive attempt to ignore the deeply political issue of union busting that would be required to fly Eastern's $29 shuttle. Lorenzo would have us ignore the ethical issues surrounding the labor-management struggle. He encourages us to accept the advertisement outside of a social and political context--something we, and the strikers, cannot afford...
LORENZO clearly wants to destroy Eastern Airlines. As Roy H. Anderson, General Chair of District 100 of the International Association of Machinists, said, "This is the first time in history that labor unions have gone on strike against the employer to save their own company...
First, changes in labor law since the 1983 Continental strike have made it more difficult for airline owners to bust unions. Every other major airline operates profitably in cooperation with its unions, and will continue to do so, eliminating the possibility of a general reduction in airline fares through deunionization of the industry. Continental will remain the only non-union airline...