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...pampered pilots. A plethora of labor disputes, including jealousy in the ranks of many of the line's eight unions over the fact that a few jumbo-jet pilots earn as much as $11,000 a month, forced management to ground its planes for three weeks in April. The lockout cost the company $15 million, but its problems did not end there. Among the others: a labor force of 5,500 people that some critics claim is too large, and an aging fleet awaiting delivery of new and more economical jets. In consequence, government economists predict that El Al, which...
...paper might have lasted longer if an expected newspaper strike had temporarily shut the city's three larger dailies, leaving the nonunion Trib the biggest daily in town. A lockout is still a possibility this week at Rupert Murdoch's Post, but the prospect of a citywide strike has receded. As it was, the Trib even missed the story of its own death. Unable to come up with the check for roughly $23,000 that the paper's New Jersey printer demanded each night before rolling the presses, Saffir canceled what would have been the self-proclaimed...
There are other problems. The orchestra is about to lose its permanent conductor. Brian Priestman is leaving this year, and there is no replacement in sight. More seriously, the symphony has been through a bitter lockout in which the issue was a big cutback in the number of weeks per season (and therefore...
...taking no chances. At the headquarters of a major multinational company, an iron gate was installed to protect the offices against attacks by street mobs. The top management of a French heavy-machinery company in the Paris suburbs changed the locks on their factory doors to prevent a lockout by workers. Commercial transactions were being carried out mainly on a day-to-day basis, with immediate payment demanded. In the vast government ministries, the bureaucracy meandered, as decisions were postponed until after the elections...
Claiming that his arrest signaled a lockout by the News, he threw pickets around the paper's headquarters. The News replied that its composing room was open to any printers willing to work at normal speed. The International Typographers Union sided with the paper; it refused to decree a lockout and ruled that Powers' local was engaged in an "unauthorized strike." As a result, members of other unions crossed the typographers' picket lines, and the News continued to reach the newsstands...