Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long Islanders still shudder when the words LIRR and strike are mentioned in the same sentence. It's hard to imagine that this society of commuters would ever again endure the inconvenience of a transit strike. Suburban stock brokers and investment bankers might form a commuters' union and stage a counterstrike. I can imagine their slogans--"Commuters of the world unite! Break yours chains! Fight for your transit rights!" Conservative Yuppies would be transormed into radical revolutionaries...
Monday morning would come and Wall Street would be desolate, the first casualty of the commuter strike. Simultaneous strikes in other cities would paralyze the nation. Maybe even the world. All because the Eastern machinists wouldn't take a mere 50 percent pay cut. The nerve of them...
This is not to say that transportation workers should not be allowed to strike. But even a little thing like a 30-day cooling-off period--which Bush stubbornly refused to grant--could prevent future strikes from deteriorating into mass chaos...
Self-Consciousness is neither a straightforward autobiography nor a decisive pre-emptive strike against future chronicles. There will surely be biographies of Updike someday, all of which, if they are any good, will draw heavily from this book of revelations. Updike's candor is not of the scandalous or titillating sort. Rather, the six essays assembled here piece together a fascinating self-portrait of an evolving sensibility, of a mind learning to love the world from which it feels, for several reasons, estranged...
...Lorenzo and the machinists at Eastern Air Lines. Since 1987 the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (I.A.M.) has staunchly resisted Lorenzo's demands for wage concessions. At midnight last Friday, after more than a year of federal mediation failed to produce an agreement, the union launched a strike that is producing havoc for the carrier's 100,000 daily passengers and could throw East Coast airports and other transportation hubs into turmoil...