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...years has been the Federal Government's failure to decide whether a coast-to-coast railroad strike constitutes a national emergency. If it does not, then Congress should allow railroad labor and management, like those in any other industry, to use their ultimate weapons, the strike and the lockout, without federal interruption. If it does, then the Government should devise a plan that guarantees settlements without the threat of a full shutdown...
Sweden: The Big Lockout...
...Divorce. If the lockout of men engaged in the nation's defense boggled outside observers, it little surprised Swedes. Military officers enjoy the right to negotiate as a union and to take strike action (though they have never done so). Stockholm's morning newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, published a wry cartoon showing a large billboard inscribed with what it called a message from the Minister of Defense: "It is forbidden to engage in war against Sweden during the lockout." Meanwhile, Defense Minister Sven Andersson assured critics that key men in defense posts would be exempt from the lockout...
...hours per month. They also get a 30% tax rebate and 40 days of annual holiday. When they struck for even shorter hours and higher pay, France's three leading airlines retaliated by locking out 2,400 members of flight crews. With nearly 350 daily flights canceled, the lockout is costing the airlines a combined $1.8 million daily in operating losses. The flight crews have not found much sympathy from either public or press. Commented Le Monde: "The pilots have an excellent image. Do they have to spoil it through an excess of greed?" What most bothers French aviation...
Pointing to the legality of their strike against the Union Pacific, labor leaders decried the lockout. "I think that's illegal as hell," said William Winpisinger, chief union negotiator. Whether or not it was, the lockout and the strike were short-lived. After hearing arguments by both sides, U.S. District Judge John Sirica issued a temporary restraining order in Washington barring both the lockout and the walkout that had prompted...