Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machinists, whose strike began March 4 when they refused to accept $125 million in concessions, asked the bankruptcy court to approve $8 million in paychecks due last Friday and $1 million in insurance premiums due for February coverage...
Throughout the strike, representatives of Eastern's management took to the television airwaves to plead their case: the airline was losing $1 million per day. Employees must take a drastic pay cut or the airline will fold...
WHEN the machinists' strike against Eastern Airlines began 12 days ago, it was time for organized labor to start singing its old refrain, "Which side...
Four days after 3,500 machinists walked off the job to protest a proposed 28 percent pay cut, President Bush set the tone for the public debate on the strike: "I would urge [the striking workers] not to make the public--the innocent traveling public--a pawn in this dispute...
...unfortunate that the question in the Eastern strike has been, "Why are they screwing up my travel plans?" instead of, "Why won't Lorenzo make any reasonable concessions to the workers?" The public assumes that unions, not management, are automatically to blame for labor disputes...