Word: lockout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reporters were barred from the mayor's office. But that did not stop them from scooping their powerful rival, the Los Angeles Times, by printing damaging reports about Bradley's finances just three weeks before the election. Last week, however, Herald Examiner staffers faced a far more formidable lockout: the Hearst Corp., unable to find a buyer for the unprofitable daily, announced that it would shut the paper's doors after Thursday's edition...
...Padres had wanted an arbitrator to decide if Hurst would be paid in the event of a strike but agreed to a "defensive lockout...
Under the language in Hurst's contract, a player gets paid during a lockout unless the lockout is in response to a strike or a strike threat...
...deal was agreed to early yesterday morning when the Padres changed the lockout language part of the contract in the event of a strike in 1990. Baseball's collective bargaining agreement expires after next season...
Rogers' current campaign could be equally futile. Unlike most unionized companies, IP negotiates on a plant-by-plant basis. At present, only four of the firm's 26 mills are affected, a fact that mitigates IP's sense of urgency about settling. Before the lockout and strike, workers at the four plants were more or less happy with business as usual; at an average wage of $13.55 an hour, and with considerable overtime, some mill hands were earning more than $40,000 a year. But at several mills the company insisted on eliminating "premium pay," the double wage that paperworkers...