Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than ready to see an end to hostilities. One hopeful sign: the number of reported military incidents has dropped from a high of 223 a week last February to about three or four a week. Yet another favorable omen is that Hanoi raised no obstacles to the settlement, and both Hanoi and Peking are preparing to return their ambassadors to Vientiane...
...striking Teamsters union and the papers. The main issue is automation-a new multimillion-dollar Post-Dispatch printing plant has made obsolete the jobs of some of the 32 Teamsters who load papers on and off delivery trucks. Last week the Globe-Democrat went to court to seek a settlement, and Mayor John Poelker said he would step in to mediate the strike. Meanwhile the readers wait...
...shortest nationwide walkouts in U.A.W. history. If, as expected, the deal wins approval in a rank-and-file vote that ends this week, the way will be clear for Chrysler to resume operations almost immediately. U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock scarcely concealed his glee in pronouncing the settlement "precedent setting," an assessment in which most auto chiefs concurred...
Most of the innovations in the Chrysler settlement were in the area of working conditions and fringe benefits...
...looks like a pretty big, fat settlement, but I haven't heard anybody saying it's a package we can't live with...