Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...film, shot in an cerily matter-of-fact documentary style, records the last hours in the history of the world. It begins in the heat of the Cold War, just as General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) has manipulated routine Air Force procedures into a full preemptive strike on the Soviet Union. The general is the kind of man who carries a machine gun and artillery belt in his golf bag. His companion in his final hour is Captain Mandrake, a young Peter Sellers in the role of a British officer at the mercy of commie-phobic Yanks...
Even if the National Pasttime is on strike, that doesn't mean that Harvard won't play this year. Of course, it's not like anyone cares. Fenway Park was practically bursting its seams with 121 fans for last year's Beanpot...
...both of which are on view in Flint, Michigan. It is the site of General Motors' Buick City works, which is central to all GM auto production because it makes parts for assembly plants throughout the country. Buick City, in turn, was the scene in late September of a strike that, says Roach, "was symbolic of an issue that is really at the core of the debate right now: do workers get to reap the benefits of the improved efficiencies that they are delivering to employers...
...permanent workers to relieve the overtime crush. Workers responded enthusiastically. ENOUGH MANPOWER FOR FIRST-AID CALLS, RESTROOM CALLS AND FAMILY NEEDS, demanded one picket sign. Said an assembly-line worker, a mother with four school-age children: "I never thought I'd see the day when I welcomed a strike for a few days off." GM settled after three days with a pledge to hire 779 more regular workers...
...past dozen years, and that has lowered costs and raised productivity: from sales of $886,000 per employee to $2.3 million. Losses have turned to profits, and more than half its nearly $12 billion annual sales are made to overseas customers. The company has had to ride out a strike by about 28% of its employees that is now in its 16th week. It has kept production up partly by making supervisors work at line jobs, partly by luring some United Auto Workers members into crossing the picket lines, partly by turning out more machinery in overseas plants...