Word: lockout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daily News and the Journal-American at hours neatly chosen to interfere with two editions of both papers. Powers was apparently hoping that the publishers would retaliate by locking the printers out - a move that would save him from the onus of calling a strike. But there was no lockout; the next move was up to Big Six. Then the publishers conceded. They offered Powers a $12-a-week increase over a two-year period, plus all of the salary savings from the use of tape for the setting of stock quotations...
According to the NLRB, the lockout would have been legal had the stores shut down. Disagreeing, the court said that the lockouts were legal because they were not "hostile" to the union; indeed the stores immediately rehired their union clerks after the strike. The lockouts were thus a legitimate "defensive measure to preserve the multiemployer group in the face of the whipsaw strike...
Fair's Fair. Equally business-saving rather than union-busting, said the court, was a lockout by American Ship Building Co., which depends for its income largely on repairs to Great Lakes ships laid up during the icebound winter. In the summer of 1961, after five strikes, the company reached an impasse with eight unions that demanded an extended contract expiring in midwinter, the height of the business season. In desperation, the company closed one yard and laid off workers in two others. By fall, the company had a two-year contract and has not been struck since...
...this an unfair labor tactic? Yes, said the NLRB, because the lockout forced the unions to abandon their wage demands. Moreover, it was so timed that it nullified the unions' strike power during the company's most vulnerable period. The court sharply disagreed. The company showed no antiunion bias, said Justice Potter Stewart for the unanimous bench. Rather, it legally used the "bargaining lockout" as a corollary of the "bargaining strike." Lockouts may disrupt strike plans, but the right to strike does not include "the right exclusively to determine the timing and duration of all work stoppages...
...tired of your newspaper with its lockout and stall-in reports? Tired of TV's British satire and hillbilly corn? Of your local theaters' grim neorealism and grimmer (at least in performance) Shakespeare? Then Pinafore is the thing for you. The Gilbert and Sullivan Players are offering a relaxing amateur evening at Agassiz, and I had a rollicking good time...