Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plane and its complement of escorts took off the next morning at 3:47 and headed for Kokura, a city that contained a major weapons arsenal, on the north coast of the island of Kyushu. Finding the target obscured by clouds and facing a fuel shortage on the strike plane, Major Charles W. Sweeney decided to fly over the alternate target on his way to an emergency landing on Okinawa...
...soon. As the ministers sat down in London, one safe area -- Srebrenica -- had already fallen and another -- Zepa -- was about to fall. Gorazde was surrounded, under artillery fire. If the Serb commander, General Ratko Mladic, presses ahead with his assault, the U.N. and NATO will then be pledged to strike...
...have shot up more than 50% in the past year, advertising in much of the country is soft after years of recession, and circulation at many papers is flat or declining. In recent months the Houston Post and the Baltimore Evening Sun have joined the casualties. And a bitter strike against the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News has opened the possibility that only one of those two papers will survive...
...clout, leaders of the major auto, steel and machinists unions today said they would merge into a a 2 million-member superunion by the year 2000. That way, Baumohl says, the United Auto Workers, the Steelworkers and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers could stage "much wider strikes in many different industries that would put much more pressure on the business sector when any of their brethren are threatened." Why now? "Virtually every strategy they've ever used is no longer effective. Too many union members are afraid that if they go on strike, they'll lose their...
...group of leading columnists and reporters may end the two-week strike against both major Detroit newspapers. Sixunionsrepresenting 2,500 workers walked off their jobs at the Gannett-owned Detroit News and Knight-Ridder's Free Press on July 13 over proposed job cuts and pay changes. But the journalists, who include sportswriter Mitch Albom, film critic Susan Stark, and veteran auto writer Doron Levin, tell TIME Daily that they have run out of patience with what they say is mostly aTeamsterissue (which the publishers characterize as "featherbedding"), one that is hurting their papers financially as the strike continues. Says...