Word: strike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strike was called in Montreal by 74 French-language TV producers, finally settled after 68 bitter days-while CBC President Alphonse Ouimet collapsed of a heart attack...
Every few years, in early summer, the U.S. is treated to an old, familiar spectacle. With flourish and fanfare, the representatives of the U.S. steel industry's management and labor sit down to negotiate a new wage agreement, working against the steadily approaching threat of a strike deadline. Labor cockily demands a fat wage hike-and management just as cockily turns it down. Eight times since World War II they have fought their suspenseful duel; five times it resulted in strikes, three times in an early agreement. This week the U.S. was up against the old deadline once more...
Whether the negotiators reached a last-minute settlement or allowed a strike to tie up 90% of U.S. steel production, those facts had already brought about a dramatic and significant change in the climate of U.S. labor relations. For the first time in 23 years, the nation's third most powerful union (after the teamsters and the autoworkers) had run-to its shocked surprise -into a stone wall. After years of giving in to union demands for wage raises, the steel industry this year met labor with a hard new line, refused right up to this week to give...
...government help to break the deadlock. He remembered the record 62½? , three-year wage package won by the steelworkers in 1956 after Labor Secretary James Mitchell and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey pressured management, knew that this time both Nixon and Mitchell were anxious to see a no-strike settlement. But the Administration stuck firmly to its hands-off policy. When President Eisenhower later renewed his earlier plea for an indefinite extension of bargaining, Dave McDonald wearily turned it down, announced that the union would strike this week if it did not win a new contract...
...steel industry had good reasons for believing that its new line was not only hard but realistic and well timed. It was well prepared for a strike; steel customers had enough inventory for seven weeks or more, would still be there as a clamoring market for steel once a strike was over. Steelmen also counted on the fact that U.S. steelworkers, already the highest paid of the Big Three unions, are aware that a wage-and-price boost might bring more inflation to nullify a pay rise, give a boost to foreign competition, and eventually cost jobs in the mills...