Word: striking
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...strike catches Boeing with an unprecedented order backlog of 1,063 commercial jets valued at $80 billion. Delivery dates are in danger of slipping as the company tries to meet surging demand from airlines eager to modernize their aging jet fleets. Earlier this year Boeing was forced to stretch out delivery schedules for its newest jumbo, the 747-400, and to hire hundreds of workers from rival Lockheed to get the program back on a credible schedule. Last week Boeing executives were reassuring customers that the strike, if it is short, would not mean further delivery delays...
...strike as long as the last one, which went on for 45 days in 1977, could be devastating to all sides. Boeing is far and away the largest employer in both the Seattle area (where it has 106,000 workers) and the state (144,725) and spends as much as $1 billion a year on supplies in the region. A prolonged stoppage would cost thousands of jobs in other areas, ranging from parts manufacturers to restaurants. Increased unemployment would have a heavy impact on the state government, which has no income tax and is heavily dependent on sales-tax revenue...
...talks have been scheduled on ending the walkout. The machinists can fall back on their $90 million strike fund, but Boeing is under pressure to deliver 94 more jet airliners before year-end. In the interim, Boeing intends to use supervisors and nonunion personnel to put the final touches on dozens of jets that stand virtually completed at its assembly plants in Renton and Everett, Wash. The company pledges to observe strict safety standards. But the Federal Aviation Administration, taking no chances, announced last week that it would "significantly expand" its inspections of the company's assembly lines to ensure...
...bleaker than usual in the U.S.S.R. With cold weather fast approaching and an increasingly militant labor force threatening to paralyze the transportation system, supplies of food and fuel could be in jeopardy. Soviet leaders reacted with old-style authority by proposing sweeping emergency measures: a ban on all strikes for 15 months and deployment of troops to break an Azerbaijani blockade of Armenia. But after a dramatic all- night debate, legislators in the Supreme Soviet did what not so long ago was unthinkable. They rebuffed the strike proposal as "unconstitutional" and voted instead to put strict limits only on work...
Gorbachev's concern over labor unrest is well grounded. Since last July, when Soviet coal miners went on a three-week strike to protest their squalid living conditions and the government caved in to their demands, long-suffering Soviet workers have found work stoppages a potent weapon. So have restive national groups. For more than a month, railways have been blocked between the tiny Caucasus republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia, which are battling for control of the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. The blockade has severely curtailed supplies of food, medicine and gasoline in Armenia. Last week coal miners...