Word: lockout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Trucking Employers, Inc., representing nearly 1,500 trucking firms, announced a nationwide lockout in retaliation against scattered strikes by local Teamsters Union members. The lockout idled a quarter-million Teamsters and stalled trucks that carry 65% of the freight hauled on the nation's highways. If a swift agreement was not reached, the Federal Government appeared ready to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, calling for an 80-day truce, in which work would resume and bar gaining continue...
...A.A.U.P. would conduct an investigation; if the committee then recommended censure it would go before the annual meeting in April; then it might appear in the AAUP BULLETIN on the list of censured institutions. This is the "sanction" which the AAUP imposes. Our strike, a defensive action against a "lockout" of union learers active in the forefront of educational reform at St. John's has aroused the entire academic, labor and intellectual world. It has made teaching and being a student at St. John's acts of shame...
...LOCKOUT, by Leon Wolff. The bitter story of the Homestead Strike in 1892, in which workers struck against the lethal working conditions at Andrew Carnegie's steel mill. Henry Clay Frick, Carnegie's second-in-command at the time, retaliated with a hired army of Pinkerton men; in four months of hostilities 35 were killed, 400 injured. When the strike was finally broken, men who were not fired went back to worse conditions and slashed...
When Hearst's News-American shut down, nine unions filed a complaint of an illegal lockout, and an NLRB examiner backed them up. The News-American plans to take the case to court, but meanwhile the bill for back pay owed to employees is piling up at the rate of over $125,000 a week. If the courts rule against the News-American, the paper will have...
...LOCKOUT by Leon Wolff. 297 pages. Harper...