Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over six years to 20,000 flight attendants who struck American Airlines in 1993 and defied the company by remaining out while it hired replacement workers. "What happened was really a beacon for labor," says Denise Hedges, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants. "It was the strike, or rather the very serious way we pursued it, that forced management back to the table...
...contract broke down. Among the flash points was Boeing's growing practice of shifting skilled assembly-line work from U.S. plants to China in order to boost sales to that country. Says George Kourpias, president of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers: "I'm running the Boeing strike, and there's an excitement in the rank and file I haven't seen in years...
...militant new job actions often come at workplaces that have rarely seen unions before. In one pitched battle last March, 100 registered nurses--some of them grandmothers who never expected to find themselves on picket lines--won a 16% wage increase over 1 3/4 years after a six-month strike against the Catholic-run Mercy Hospital in Port Jervis, New York. Undaunted by the hiring of replacement workers, the nurses, who were members of the National Health and Human Service Employee union, picketed in weather that sometimes sank to -29 degrees C. "I would like to think our strike...
...Madman of the People). 13: Life with Luigi (Ellen). 14: Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts (Hope & Gloria). 15: Goodyear Television Playhouse (Frasier). 16: The Life of Riley (Murphy Brown). 17: Mama (20/20). 18: Your Show of Shows (CBS Sunday Movie). 19: What's My Line? (NBC Monday Night Movies). 20: Strike It Rich (Dave's World...
...Strike It Rich was arguably the creepiest nonpublic-access program in TV history. A quiz show, it featured contestants who were chosen for their desperate need of money: families who were about to lose their homes, the unemployed, the crippled, people with sick parents (this was before Medicare even existed, let alone needed to be "fixed"). If a Strike It Rich contestant came up empty-handed, all was not lost: the host would urge viewers to call in on the "Heart Line" and pledge money and/or medical equipment. Despite this innovative, Roman circus-like approach to charity, the New York...