Word: strike
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According to Simon Billinguess, a senior research analyst at Franklin Research, Inc., Harvard's decision may be used by PepsiCo shareholders to show that Burma is having an effect on the company's ability to strike business deals...
DAYTON, Ohio: Workers from two GM brake plants voted to accept management's offer, bringinging to an end an 18-day strike that had crippled the world's largest automaker. The vote was nearly unanimous, with 99 percent of the strikers voting in favor of the pact. The walkout had forced GM to close 26 of its 29 North American assembly plants and 18 parts plants. In all, 177,375 GM workers were furloughed. The main issue in dispute was outsourcing -- the production of parts by outside companies. The union claimed that practice will cost jobs. The company argued that...
...been reached between the union and General Motors. The 2,700 workers at two brake plants here will vote Friday morning on whether to ratify the agreement, which has the endorsement of union negotiators. The two sides have met daily since last Friday in an effort to end the strike that idled more than 160,000 GM workers. The main issue in dispute was outsourcing -- the production of parts by outside companies. Financial analysts say that GM must outsource more or face a long- term competitive disadvantage. While the two sides did not officially release the terms of the agreement...
DAYTON, OHIO: Talks have resumed between union and GM negotiators to reach an agreement ending the two-week old strike by workers at two Dayton brake plants. Earlier, negotiators took a brief break following 40 hours of non-stop bargaining. The walkout by 2,700 workers at the two plants has idled some 150,000 GM workers and forced the world's largest automaker to shut down 25 of its 29 North American assembly plants. The effect of the strike has spread beyond GM, as the company has halted steel and engine shipments. Caterpillar Inc., which makes engines...
...other country. And more carnage may be ahead: Mohamed Abu Wardeh, the man who recruited three of the recent suicide bombers, has been imprisoned by the Palestinians. Security officials tell TIME he has admitted that five more bombers have been given their devices and are waiting to strike. Nevertheless, Peres has ordered no cataclysmic counterblow, no unleashing of Israel's superior might but rather a dogged effort to undo the terrorists through the conventional means of enhanced intelligence, mass arrests and collective punishment. Peres vowed the peace process would continue, but for the first time he linked its pace...