Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the last minute, it looked as if bargainers for the nation's trucking industry and 270,000 Teamsters union drivers and loaders had a deal. But just before the Saturday midnight deadline, the union broke off negotiations and announced a "selective" strike against a few major trucking companies. The strike, however, was well short of a total walkout that could cripple the economy...
...sides, said Chief Federal Mediator Wayne Horvitz, "came awfully close." Only 24 hours before the strike deadline, negotiators agreed to increase the industry's compensation costs during the three-year contract by just over 30%. That would be substantially above the figure of 7% a year (22.5% when compounded over three years) recommended under Jimmy Carter's program of "voluntary" guidelines. By excluding some wage and benefit gains, however, the Council on Wage and Price Stability had been expected to proclaim that the 30% pact was close to the guidelines...
...counted in the cost of a new settlement. That was expected to clinch the deal. But after the talks broke down, Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons made it clear that the Administration's efforts to impose its guidelines had been a key factor in the decision to strike. "Interference by high-level government bureaucrats," he growled, "played no small part...
...faculty union's executive board called the strike Wednesday night after the University's trustees postponed ratification of a contract pending clarification of sections they called unclear...
Christenson yesterday repeated an earlier warning that negotiations would begin back "on square one" because of the strike. However, Bergenheim disagreed, saying, "The agreement is not jeopardized--we'll begin right where we left...