Word: strike
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There is nothing complicated about most labor negotiations. Two sides with differences sit down and attempt to reach common ground. It's a process in which compromise plays the leading role. The 1994 major league baseball strike falls into another category, however -- one that retired United Auto Workers president Douglas Fraser calls a "death struggle." In such confrontations, destroying your opponent takes precedence over making sweet peace...
...chalet in Sun Valley, Idaho, will be more amenable to their point of view come February. The union thinks owners, deprived of the revenue that off-season ticket sales generate, will cave in. Meanwhile, the union has begun to make payments to its members from a $200 million strike fund. Neither side shows an inclination to blink...
Alexander seemed to be providing an object lesson in trying to strike just the right note. "The concerns expressed by the Christian Coalition are no different from those I've heard from other Americans," he told TIME. "The question for us as Republicans is how we can give voice to those concerns without coming across as intolerant or angry or threatening." Indeed, the trick to winning the G.O.P. nomination is to get at least the grudging approval of conservative Christians while drawing support from the party's other two important bases, neither of which cares much about the main religious...
Baseball's acting commissioner Bud Selig made the anticlimactic announcement: because of the 34-day players' strike, the remainder of the 1994 season, including -- for the first time in 90 years -- the World Series, has been canceled. In its place: further acrimonious bargaining lasting no one knows for how long...
...course the Harvard Club operates on a more economical basis during the strike. The severe loss of business has led to the lay-off of a number of their high-salaried managers and most of the scabs. --David Ramos Member, Local Six Harvard Club of New York