Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iconfess. The only time I ever thought about labor issues before this week was during the baseball strike a few years back. And even then it was more inconvenience than concern...
When the Eastern machinists union decided to strike last week, it had all the makings of a 1981 air traffic controllers replay: union strikes, president orders them back to work, union refuses, president fires them, hires new workers, airlines continue normal service...
...unlike Reagan, President Bush refused to get involved in the strike. The machinists union asked Bush to call for a 30-day cooling-off period--a step which might have resulted in a negotiated settlement and the salvation of Eastern Airlines. But instead, Eastern filed for bankruptcy, the union made no tangible gains and thousands of travelers were left in the cold...
...first, I was fairly confident that the strike wouldn't affect me. I always take the Pan-Am shuttle anyway (that's where my frequent flyer miles are), and they said they were adding extra flights to accomodate the Eastern overflow. No problem...
...potential for chaos posed by the machinist strike was nothing compared with that of secondary strikes by railroad and mass-transit workers...