Word: strikes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sharansky formulated a principle to live by: "Nothing they do can humiliate me. I alone can humiliate myself. Once I had absorbed that idea, nothing -- not searches, not punishments . . . not even several attempts to force-feed me through the rectum during an extended hunger strike -- could deprive me of my self-respect...
...coffee cups and strikers. Some of the men and women are back from 6 a.m. picket duty at the nearby International Paper mill; others, despite the weather, will report for the afternoon. The union was locked out of one IP plant in Alabama 15 months ago and went on strike last June at three mills -- the one in Jay and two others in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- because of contract disputes. Despite the length of the strike, the members are hanging tough: only 5% of the 3,500 affected employees have returned to their jobs, even though the company has hired...
...labor disputes from the picket line to the boardroom, he has been involved in many of the major union fights of the past decade, including the successful battles of farmworkers against Campbell soup and flight attendants against American Airlines. While supporters describe his approach as a welcome addition to strike tactics, critics attack him as a glory hound who seduces local unions into pursuing his interests -- publicity and influence over the rank and file -- rather than theirs. Whatever the judgment, in an era of union retreat, Rogers provides a rallying point for labor...
...long and bitter walkout by meat-packers at a Hormel plant in Austin, Minn. That brought him into conflict with the Union of Food and Commercial Workers International, which came to disapprove of the walkout and such stratagems as dispatching pickets to Hormel plants that were not on strike. Hormel eventually outlasted the strikers, and 650 jobs were eliminated...
Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci came as close as he ever does to raising his voice when he tried to persuade Soviet Defense Minister Dmitri Yazov that SLCMs should not figure in calculations of the overall balance of destructive power. Yazov was just as adamant: SLCMs can strike deep inside the Soviet Union, he said, and thus must be limited by START...