Word: labored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...labor-management battles in the 1980s have matched in bitterness the feud between Texas Air Chairman Frank Lorenzo and the machinists at Eastern Air Lines. Since 1987 the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (I.A.M.) has staunchly resisted Lorenzo's demands for wage concessions. At midnight last Friday, after more than a year of federal mediation failed to produce an agreement, the union launched a strike that is producing havoc for the carrier's 100,000 daily passengers and could throw East Coast airports and other transportation hubs into turmoil...
...National Mediation Board, a federal agency that steps into deadlocked labor disputes, has tried in vain since January 1988 to bring the machinists and management closer together. As a federally mandated 30-day cooling-off period ticked down to the strike deadline, the mediators called on President Bush to establish an emergency board to examine the dispute, a move that would ! have delayed the strike an additional 60 days. The mediators pointed out the potential widespread impact of the strike, since the AFL-CIO has threatened to disrupt rail, bus and airline transportation across the U.S. in support...
...costly Down Under because Australian cattle are fed more grass. Japanese trading houses have poured $132 million into Australian beef operations, more than twice their U.S. investment so far. That trend has prompted mixed feelings. Last month Australian beef producers called for government restrictions on further Japanese investment, but labor unions, whose members have benefited from increased employment, rose to defend...
...Jerusalem legendary Mayor Teddy Kollek, 77, won a sixth term in office with 59% of the vote. But his Labor-affiliated party, One Jerusalem, lost its majority on the powerful city council, in part because of low Arab turnout...
...stunning upset ended decades of Labor Party dominance in numerous key regions. With more Labor strongholds expected to fall in runoff elections scheduled for next week, Labor leader Shimon Peres grudgingly agreed to an investigation into the humiliating defeat...