Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...community, known for his intelligence and his deicated work against apartheid through the Black Consciousness Movement. Realizing his popularity and the damaging publicity that could result from his jailing, the South African police told the press that the cause of his death was suicide--the result of a hunger strike, complicated by a fall from a chair that fractured his skull...
Just eight hours before a threatened nationwide postal strike was to begin last week, neither side showed any sign of budging. Postmaster General William F. Bolger adamantly refused to go back to the bargaining table. Three postal unions were just as insistent on reopening negotiations after their members had voted to reject a contract calling for a 19.5% pay increase over three years...
...plan gave everyone a badly needed respite until the new deadline Sept. 16. "Horvitz did a fantastic job," exulted a White House aide. Happiest of all were the two postal union leaders who had strict instructions from their members to call a strike-even though postal strikes are illegal-if the Postal Service did not resume talks. Said J. Joseph Vacca, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers: "I can breathe again for the first time in a week...
...business and the National Guard's brutalization of the rural population have served to unite the opposition, which now ranges from the extreme left to extreme right. After the Sandinista assault on the palace, the Broad Opposition Front, a coalition of political and business groups, called a general strike to last until Somoza resigned...
...Matagalpa (pop. 61,000) a thriving coffee-and cattle-farming center in the mountains 80 miles north of Managua, youths immediately covered some of the streets with broken glass to ensure compliance with the strike. The young rebels, mostly teenagers, then went around accumulating-by force, in some cases-small arms, rifles and shotguns from residents of the city. By Sunday morning, Aug. 27, los muchachos (the boys) had enough firepower to start what they described as the "people's war against the Somoza regime...