Word: strike
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What happened last Friday night might be termed, in the jargon of the ever precarious airline business, a near miss. A showdown strike by American Airlines pilots was avoided only by the dramatic intervention of someone who doesn't fly commercial, the President of the U.S. Bill Clinton, apparently not at all eager to see billions of dollars drained from the prospering U.S. economy, used a provision of the Railway Labor Act (which governs organized labor in the airline industry) to impose a 60-day cooling-off period...
...none carries anywhere near the clout of the flyboys and -girls, a highly trained, highly paid and highly agitated bunch who have always seen themselves on a par with management, with one exception: pilots cannot be replaced quickly or easily. The pilots' union badly bloodied United Airlines in a strike in 1985, and pilots hammered the final nail in Eastern Airlines' corporate coffin in a strike in 1989. The majority of American's pilots served in the military, and many seem to relish the notion of a dogfight with their famously pugnacious boss. "A lot of these guys have been...
...machinists threatens the entire premise of employee ownership. In 1994 United employees completed a purchase of 55% of the company. In exchange for their ownership stake, they made concessions totaling $4.8 billion. (Pilots as a group own 25% of the company.) They also gave up their right to strike. Yet United's pilots, embittered by what they feel was harsh and callous treatment of them by their management during labor talks, can in some sense create even more trouble. "We are owners, and we have serious clout," says Captain Kevin Dohm, a 737 pilot from Chicago. "If need...
DETROIT: In what is largely a procedural move to force management's hand in a bitter 19-month old strike, Detroit's six striking newspaper-employee unions presented return-to-work offers to Detroit Newspapers on Monday. The unions said they would return to work if management would agree to rehire all the strikers, something that the company has already said it will not do. Unions hope that a refusal of their offer will help make their case before the National Labor Relations Board that Detroit Newspapers, which manages the joint business and production operations for The Detroit News...
DALLAS: If you blinked, you missed it. American Airlines was back in business Saturday after President Clinton had abruptly intervened shortly after mignight four minutes into a strike by the carrier's 90,000 employees. The airline said fewer than 100 flights worldwide were affected by the walkout, comparing its impact to less than a bad storm at one of its hubs. Much to the joy of skittish travelers, American says it will be back to normal by Sunday. In addition, the airline announced it will slash some fares up to 50 percent and double mileage points to lure back...