Word: strike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that after six years of talks, SALT II was finally within reach. The Secretary seemed especially relaxed on the plane. During the first day's talks, after reading their formal statements, Vance and Gromyko engaged in some serious trading, indicating that both had been given substantial leeway to strike a bargain. Later, after telephoning a brief progress report to Carter, a tired Vance acknowledged that the number of outstanding questions had been narrowed. Still, he cautioned, "We have some issues yet to be resolved. Some are difficult...
...same time, the government of Premier Gholam Reza Azhari, who is also the army chief of staff, was using tough methods to break a nationwide oil strike. In Ahwaz, workers were given their choice of going back to their jobs or being fired; by week's end most of the country's 37,000 oil and refinery employees were back at work, and production rose to roughly half the normal output of 6 million...
...their contracts expire Jan. 7. In some ways, Carter could not have chosen a better target had he been able to pick OCAW deliberately. The union's members are well paid; counting shift premiums, they average $9.32 an hour. Moreover, oil refineries are so automated that OCAW could strike and hardly anybody would notice for a while; if there are no breakdowns requiring major repair, refineries can be run by a few engineers turning dials. In fact, says one oil executive, "during one long strike we were actually able to produce more than we did before the walkout...
...Administration has been leaving nothing to chance. According to union officials, it has counseled the industry's executives to be prepared for a long strike and reportedly threatened to reject their bids for drilling leases on federally owned land if they agree to a settlement that busts the guidelines. Says OCAW President Alvin Grospiron angrily: "This kind of interference helps to promote strikes." An industry official in effect agrees: "The guidelines have complicated the situation because the size of the settlement has become a matter of pride with the union. A strike is now more likely...
Whatever settlement OCAW reaches, with or without a strike, will influence the negotiations for a new master freight agreement to replace the one that expires March 31 for 300,000 members of the Teamsters. That contract will be the real make-or-break test of the guidelines. The Teamsters, unlike OCAW, are traditional pattern setters, and a truck strike could paralyze the whole economy...