Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MIAMI--Eastern Airlines warned its pilots they risked their future by honoring picket lines in the two-day-old machinists strike, which has cut flights drastically, stranded weary passengers at airports and threatened to expand into a nationwide transportation snarl...
Eastern was hit with a strike at 12:01 a.m. Saturday by the Machinists union. About 8,500 mechanics, baggage handlers and ground crews walked out over Eastern's demand for contract concessions, escalating a 17-month union-management battle at the nation's seventh-largest airline...
...strike threatened to spill over into a union sympathy action against as many as 12 commuter railroads around the country, which could create rush-hour havoc Monday morning, especially in the New York metropolitan area. Strikers planned picketing at commuter railroads and received assurances no rail workers would cross their lines...
...Orleans, Thomas Hoggatt, president of machinists Local 1905, said it is too soon to tell how many other labor groups there will honor the strike...
...Boston, officials readied 150 public and private buses in anticipation of a sympathy strike that would affect service to 35,000 suburban commuters...