Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...estimated number of Harvard professors who have volunteered at the schools during the strike range from two to a dozen...
...strike in the Belmont school district began January 6. Points of contention are higher salaries and language modifications in teacher contracts, including a no-recrisals clause for teachers involved in the strike...
...strike is close to ending, according to one of the four teachers...
...Belmont superintendent's office had no official statement on the progress of the strike as of yesterday evening...
Workers in a General Motors auto parts plant in Flint, Michigan went on strike this morning, after making no progress in a 25-hour negotiating session that lasted all night Tuesday. More than 6,800 union workers took to the picket lines, calling for GM to reduce overtime and hire more permanent employees.TIME Detroit bureau chief Bill McWhirterdescribes the latest walkout as a "virtual replay" of last October's strike at another Flint plant, when GM reluctantly gave in to the strikers' demands for a staff increase. McWhirter says that GM's current hard stance is surprising. "By giving...