Word: memberships
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...primary strike target. Reason: the company, which passed GM last year with earnings of $3.3 billion, is now Detroit's most profitable automaker. Even if those negotiations proceed smoothly, however, there are other signs that labor's restiveness is slowly increasing, despite the decline of U.S. union membership from 20.1 million in 1980 to 17 million in 1986. Last year the number of major U.S. work stoppages rose for the first time in the 1980s, to 69, from 54 in 1985. This year the number could rise again...
...Third World countries not by private banks but by governments themselves. The main work of the club is "rescheduling," a euphemism for delaying portions of government-to- government debt that is one or two years in arrears, usually with the proviso that current obligations be met. The club's membership list includes such predictable names as the U.S., Britain, France and Japan, all well-known international lenders. But the club also includes some Third World debtors, like Brazil (foreign debt: $110 billion), that have nonetheless managed to lend money to other developing nations. In the past four years alone...
...initiative: a Marxist propaganda specialist, who has been known to make virulent attacks on the U.S., was promoted to the ruling Politburo. Normally that would cause groans among the intellectual elite, not cheers. But this propagandist is Alexander Yakovlev, and his promotion during the Central Committee meeting to full membership in the Politburo is being widely interpreted as a victory for liberalization. Yakovlev, 63, is regarded as the architect of glasnost (openness) and a leading champion of greater artistic and literary freedom...
...week's end the party plenum demolished any doubts about Gorbachev's strength in the Kremlin by appointing three of his supporters to full membership in the Politburo. Half of the 14 men who now sit on the ruling body are regarded as Gorbachev allies. Most notable was the elevation of Propaganda Chief Alexander Yakovlev, 63, who has overseen the Soviet media campaign to promote reform. In addition, General Dmitri Yazov, 63, the new Defense Minister, was made a non-voting member of the Politburo. His predecessor, Marshal Sergei Sokolov, 75, was dismissed in disgrace last month over the military...
...actions of their members. She has taken on a number of the country's most powerful unions and crushed them: the steelworkers in 1980, the coal miners in 1985 after a bitter one-year strike, and the teachers last year. Partly as a result of Thatcher's efforts, union membership has fallen by one-quarter, to 9 million, and strikes are at a 50- year low. The number of workdays lost to labor disputes has declined from 29.5 million in 1979 to a mere 1.9 million last year. In her third term Thatcher plans legislation to further curb the power...