Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carnival began in a holiday spirit as thousands of revelers calypsoed through the streets behind steel bands. Black organizations had signed up 130 voluntary stewards to help keep order, hoping to avoid a repetition of last summer's rioting in which 608 people (including 408 policemen) were injured. At twilight, however, violence erupted. Bottles were tossed into the crowd of 50,000 celebrators; fights broke out. Wary of charges that the presence of 1,600 uniformed policemen at last summer's carnival provoked the street fighting, cops at first tried to maintain a low profile; before the outbreak...
...labor leaders to keep wages and prices in check. These sessions will continue, says Bosworth, but in addition the White House is now prepared to speak out against what it considers unjustified price hikes. Indeed, last week, President Carter ordered the council to investigate pricing policies in the steel industry and told the Pentagon to be sure to buy the lowest price steel available. Last month, the Administration condemned a price hike by U.S. Steel, but to no avail; the next day Bethlehem Steel followed the U.S. Steel increase...
...steel industry, once noted for hard-fought strikes, has for most of the past two decades been a model of labor tranquillity. In 1973, the United Steelworkers even formally surrendered the right to strike the basic steel industry over "economic" (wage and benefit) issues; in a widely hailed Experimental Negotiating Agreement (ENA), it pledged to submit pay disputes to binding arbitration. But last week more than 14,000 iron-ore miners shattered steel's separate peace by walking off their jobs in Michigan and Minnesota. It was the first substantial strike in any segment of basic steel...
...industry governed by a no-strike pact? ENA permits strikes over local issues, like job assignments, and some of these are involved in the ore walkout. But the big issue is a miners' demand that they collect incentive payments for increased production, as 85,000 workers in steel mills do. To U.S.W. officials in Pittsburgh, who gave their permission for locals at twelve mines to strike, whether any particular mill or mine grants incentive payments is a local issue, unrelated to the general wage level set by national contracts negotiated under ENA. To the companies, that argument is sophistry...
...court battle could only increase doubts about the future of the no-strike agreement. It cannot be scrapped until 1980, and nobody wants to go back to the days when strikes or threats of strikes led stockpiling steel users to step up their purchases of foreign metal. But, says one steel executive, if interruptions like the ore strike make customers feel insecure, "the whole purpose of ENA is defeated." On the union side, the walkout dramatizes the feeling of some militants that giving up the strike weapon emasculates the union. Ed Sadlowski made that argument vehemently in his losing campaign...