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...cement industry, Papandreou has refused to spell out precisely how this would occur or how businessmen would be compensated. As PASOK's election prospects have improved, Papandreou's position has moderated somewhat. He no longer urges outright withdrawal from NATO and the European Community or a shutdown of U.S. bases. Instead, he is calling for a referendum on Community membership and annual negotiations with the U.S. on the status of bases. Although a Socialist government in a country has never before been an invitation to foreign investment, Papandreou boldly says, "If we become the government, there will...
...paper's eight unions had been faced with the choice of accepting $5 million a year in cutbacks or facing a shutdown of the paper, which has lost $31.2 million since 1979-a third of it this year. Said Don Salvucci, chief negotiator for the pressmen's union, it was a question of "letting the ship sink or putting some people in a lifeboat." To keep the Bulletin afloat, 113 union and 73 nonunion jobs were eliminated. The 1,900 full-time employees remaining on staff are making various sacrifices, depending upon their position. Pressmen, for the most...
...scene outside two Massachusetts hospitals last week has become distressingly familiar at hospitals across the nation: nurses on a picket line. At Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, a walkout by 300 nurses last weekend resulted in a virtual shutdown of the facility, with only emergency room services being provided...
...illegal strike by air traffic controllers. Long a militant lot, the controllers were demanding, according to the Government, median pay raises of $10,000, plus cost of living adjustments that would bring their top annual base salary to $73,420. The union threatened a coast-to-coast shutdown if the Reagan Administration continued to resist. A full walkout would ground about three-fourths of U.S. commercial flights. But a partial strike would probably be manageable, at least for a while...
White has said the layoffs and the shutdown of several neighborhood police and fire stations were necessary to prepare Boston for Proposition 2 1/2, the tax-cut that goes into effect this July. "It's a political problem. The state will have to solve the problems of 2 1/2." White added at a news conference yesterday...