Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Strike-crippled Eastern Airlines shut down nearly all operations yesterday and idled more than 5000 workers, saying it could not afford to maintain its business because pilots were honoring a three-day-old Machinists walkout...
Eastern pilots have honored a strike by 8500 mechanics and ramp service workers that began Saturday after a 17-month labor dispute. The strike has grounded most flights, stranded thousands of passengers and pushed the nation's seventh-largest airline to the brink of collapse...
...layoffs leave Eastern with about 7000 active workers, down from 31,200 before the strike...
...pilots are conducting their own economic strike against the company," Matell said. "We believe that it is an illegal weapon to gain ALPA's economic objectives...
...think so," Allison says. She is not a contentious person, but she can't abide what seems to be imprecision. "That implies that people who don't climb don't feel life sharply. Children feel life sharply . . ." "O.K., you're probably right," says Luce amiably. "Strike that last answer." What next? Allison, the house framer, has gone back into contracting. She and her boyfriend want to spend a lot of time kayaking. And there is some $60,000 still owing (of the $250,000 total cost) on the expedition...