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Other unions in such industries as automobiles, steel, rubber, mining and trucking are also taking a pounding. Their bargaining strength has been blunted, master contracts broken, picket lines crossed. Today union workers are often confronted with a no-win ultimatum: accept a pay cut or lose your jobs. Unemployment in these industries is high because of intense competition and slow growth. Even though the economy is now generally expanding at a robust pace, unions have not regained their former bargaining muscle...
...union threw up picket lines in an attempt to halt bus travel. Yet Greyhound began hiring more than 1,000 new workers who were willing to defy the union, and was serving 500 locations in 27 states. Said Chairman John Teets: "Everyone misunderstood the resolve of this company to operate...
...hour. Continental Air Lines, the ninth largest U.S. carrier, filed for bankruptcy in September, then dismissed its 12,000 workers, only to offer jobs to 4,200 of them at about half their previous pay. Pilots and flight attendants went on strike, but enough of them crossed picket lines for Continental to operate about half its usual flights...
Another sore spot is Garland's specially commissioned logo, which one respected New Haven Register columnist described as "a hideous design which emphasizes the crimson H over the blue Y." Or, as Harvard Varsity Club President Bob Picket matter-of-factly notes: "Harvard is more prominent than Yale in the Logo, which helps." Garland explains that H is simply a larger letter, adding. "We just arrived at the most equal and optically pleasing design...We don't want to be unjudicious hosts...
Approximately 50 demonstrators protesting the recent deployment of 6000 Marines to the Caribbean island chanted slogans. Listened to speeches, and marched in picket lines that temporarily blocked traffic on Dunster...