Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military plants to civilian use. If it does so, that will be a complement to his arms-control proposals, which are based on the new and vaguely defined doctrine of "reasonable sufficiency." The doctrine holds that Soviet capabilities need not have the potential for a pre-emptive strike but must merely be adequate to respond to an attack on the Soviet Union and its allies...
...replacement players made the strike fun for us. For one spectacular game, Timmy Smith made us forget John Riggins. And, of course, we won the Super Bowl...
Local 26, under the skilled guidance of local president Dominic Bozzotto, has been one of those powerful forces--one that refuses to remain quiet. After the union authorized a strike by a 2034 to 112 vote, Bozzotto warned management that if forced to strike, Local 26 would not simply picket the hotels: "We won't be outside on the street" he told The Boston Globe, "we'll be inside, in the hotel lobbies, the dining rooms, the meeting rooms...
...union chapter reportedly had a strike strategy which included lists of employees willing to volunteer for "arrest" duty, hour-by-hour plans for sit-ins at hotels, and demonstrations in the communities where hotel owners lived. It is one thing for hotel owners to ignore a picket line outside his hotel, but if strikers march in front of their home or handcuff themselves to a hotel staircase, disrupting business, they will begin to worry...
When paperworkers in Jay, Maine stepped up their strike against International Paper (IP) last year, they didn't only picket the corporate headquarters of IP; they also picketed the headquarters of Coca-Cola and Bank of Boston, because both companies had a corporate board member who also sat on the board of IP. Making such corporate incest clear to the public demonstrates the structural problem of American capitalism: that a handful of isolated individuals are controlling the economic destiny of millions...