Word: lockout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...union negotiators were deadlocked, and that federal intervention was the only way out. Then he revealed his secret. He would, he said, ask Congress to empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish railroad work rules for a span of two years, during which time a railroad strike or lockout would be illegal...
...International Typographical Union's strike against four New York daily newspapers and the publishers' lockout at the other three is a disaster. The effects of the information blackout, now in its forty-seventh day, have been enormously destructive to the city's social political and economic life. As for the closing down of the unstruck papers, it is inexcusable; many of the injurious consequences of the strike would vanish if the Post, the Mirror, and the Herald-Tribune would get back into print tomorrow, as they easily could. The strike itself is a more complex matter. The dispute over...
Behind the customary bread-and-butter issues lay disputes so stubborn that the siege in the two cities seemed unlikely to lift soon. In Detroit, the unions were crying "lockout" at the unstruck but silent News. In Minneapolis, the mailers' union held fast to their right, under challenge by the publishers, to tie newspapers into bundles before loading onto trucks...
Kennedy's toughest chore, if he intends to keep watch over wages and prices, is apt to come not with major unions but with the tangle of small and militant locals in the construction industry. Last week a strike of construction workers -and a likely lockout by employers - was threatening to paralyze building in Northern California. The locals involved demanded that their current hourly base wage ($3.23 to $3.47) be increased by a phenomenal $1.15 an hour over three years. Management offered 33?, and neither side was budging...
Subways Are for Sleeping jumped the gun on Transport Chief Michael Quill's threatened New Year's Day subway strike in New York. Five days earlier this musical staged a song slowdown, a dance walkout and a star lockout, and then sat down on its flat, flat book...