Word: lockout
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...indignant union before it began. Promptly the plant manager posted notice of a two-week shutdown, fired 17 union leaders "for acting like Communists," announced that the portable division would be moved, not to Elmira but to Ilion, leaving 800 Syracusans jobless. This looked remarkably like a lockout...
...demand, and it is hopeful that similar reorganization will constantly take place in accordance with current preferences. The quotas are set mostly for administrative purposes alone, and the Freshman in good standing who has the conviction of his choice need have no fear of the specter of a departmental lockout...
...this means to Joe is a chance for the fight which suits his mood but when he wakes up sober the next morning, he finds himself nominal head of a new organization formed to break the old union. The war between the two labor factions results in a lockout and a strike. When the miners and their children start to starve, when their families are being ousted from Coaltown by the mining company, it becomes apparent that the new union was a cat's-paw and that Joe Radek is responsible for the confusion. An ugly incident prompts...
...House interpreters got to work on it. Emerging from a conference with President Roosevelt, Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins explained that during the "trial period" Labor would not be asked to foreswear the strike. Secretary Stephen Early made it known that employers would still be free to invoke the lockout, and decision to submit their troubles to arbitration or mediation would have to come voluntarily from each side...
...shall be an unfair labor practice for an employer, or anyone acting in his interest, directly or indirectly to attempt by interference, influence, restraint, favor, coercion, or lockout, or by any other means, to impair the rights of employees guaranteed under section four (collective bargaining) or to refuse to recognize and deal with representatives of his employees, or to fail to exert every reasonable effort to make and maintain agreements with such representatives concerning wages, hours and other conditions of employment...