Word: strike
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CATERPILLAR U.A.W. ends 17-month strike against tractor maker. Management concessions: none...
...massive labor dispute that has crippled France since the country's unionized railroad workers went on strike three weeks ago may be in its endgame. A majority of French railroad workers voted to suspend their strike today, one day after subway and bus drivers in Paris agreed to return to work. Despite recent government concessions that included an agreement to renegotiate the five-year contract with the national railway company, hard-line union negotiators remain unsatisfied. "There's going to be another big demonstration here on Saturday that may draw support from private-sector employees, which could be an indication...
Labor peace is sometimes the price of success. Boeing settled its two-month machinists strike late Wednesday night so it could get busy filling the biggest single widebody jet order in history: a $12.7 billion contract to deliver 77 of its 777 jets to Singapore airlines. To do so, the company is giving the machinists almost everything they asked for, including bonuses indexed to company performance, increased job security, expanded medical coverage and an extension of the new contract to a fourth year. The two-month walkout had already delayed the delivery of some 30 planes, costing Boeing hundreds...
Most Paris subway and bus drivers have now agreed to return to work, but bureau chief Thomas Sancton says there is still no sign that other public transportation employees will end their three-week strike: "Some drivers are going back to work, but it's definitely not an indication that the strike is over," Sancton reports. Workers on the Paris commuter and intercity trains will continue striking, despite recent government concessions that included an agreement to renegotiate the five-year contract with the national railway company. "There's going to be another big demonstration here on Saturday that may draw...
...protest began on Nov. 24 with a one-day general strike by civil servants. The movement snowballed when employees of the debt-ridden national railroad, protesting plans to restructure the company, launched an open-ended work stoppage. They were soon joined by mass-transit workers, mail sorters and state utilities workers. The result was cities snarled with traffic jams and millions of people forced to walk, bicycle or hitchhike to work. The economic cost to the country is hundreds of millions of dollars...