Word: striking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There's no doubt, though, that the government helps keep labor costs in line, in part through intimidation. There has never been a strike at SIA. In 1980, when pilots complained about pay, the country's Prime Minister threatened to fire every pilot and ground the airline, and the pilots' union was fined and shut down. A new union was formed a few months later. Today a 747 captain with 10 years' experience makes about $118,000 a year at SIA, compared with about $258,000 at a U.S. carrier. After the 9/11 attacks, the airline cut management salaries...
...fifth consecutive year after an injury-shortened season in 2005, tied Carl Morris ’03 for first all-time on Harvard’s career touchdown receptions list.Mazza’s score was also key in igniting a staggering Crimson offense, as his 20-yard strike from Pizzoti late in the first half was the game’s first score.Mazza has shown continual growth since scoring his first touchdown in the second game of his collegiate career. Since then, he’s caught 170 passes for 2,748 yards, and with a couple...
...were a little bit scrappy today,” head coach John Kerr said. “Overall, the important thing was to get three points at this stage of the season.” Hoff started the scoring early in the first half when his strike to the far post found the net. “They played a square ball,” Hoff said. “The kid mishit it, and I just intercepted it about 25 yards out and took a good first touch and shot it lower-left corner.” Fittingly, Hoff?...
...outside world, France's nationwide transport strike Wednesday will look like just another in a long line of work stoppages by French workers and their notoriously militant labor unions. Here on Planet France, however, those protests over proposed pension cutbacks are being viewed as the first major battle in a wider zero-sum war - the outcome of which will determine the fate of President Nicolas Sarkozy's vast reform program...
...civil servants, justice employees and students are equally up in arms over government policy, why is Wednesday's transport strike and its probable sequels seen as the decisive struggle in France's wider reform drive? Firstly, because successive governments have previously proposed and failed to modify the "special regimes" in the face of union resistance. And that is the second reason why the renewed attempt is producing a high-drama showdown. Although strong in sectors like transport - where strikes often cause enormous disruption - French unions represent less than 8% of the national workforce, and have seen their influence steadily wane...