Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highly successful company (1967 sales: $1.9 billion) into the first Europewide, European-owned automaker. He is convinced that such a firm will be necessary in the 1970s if the European auto industry is to weather American competition. He therefore let it be known that if he could not strike a bar gain with Citroën he would look elsewhere-perhaps toward West Germany's Volkswagen. Such a combine might so overwhelm France's entire auto industry that it would crumble within a few years. Not even Charles de Gaulle is stubborn enough to want that...
...reliance upon unions puts Mrs. Mitchell in an awkward position; for, undeniably, labor will supply a great majority of the Wallace vote in this election. The awkwardness can become schizophrenic. In New York, for example, Albert Shanker has led his powerful teachers' union in a six-week-old strike that is pitting the union directly against the black community of Ocean Hill-Brownsville in Brooklyn...
...Shanker is leading a racist strike," Mrs. Mitchell says. "Decentralization is an absolute necessity for the continuation of black education in this country. Black people must be free to control their schools." She explains Shanker's as a case of "union misleadership," and argues that unions in this country have to move away from bread and butter issues and deal "not only with what's good for themselves but with what's good for their trade...
Over the last two weeks, student radicals have mobilized behind three major issues which are expected to reach a climax this week. In conjunction with the national SDS "Strike Back," the Wisconsin SDS and Draft Resistance Union (WDRU) are planning to march on the Capitol building tonight and return to the Student Union, where they hope to control the building through the night...
...secret assault on a Viet Cong stronghold? No. What took place last week was a strike against speculators in Military Payment Certificates, the U.S.-issued scrip used to pay American fighting men in Viet Nam. Colonel Richmond happens to be the U.S. military command's top comptroller, and C-day was the moment chosen for a surprise conversion in the $50 million worth of MFCs in circulation in Viet...