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...Iceland earn 40% less than men on average, though 80% of working-age women hold jobs. Journalists seeking more data on that shocking wage disparity ran into trouble. "I'm sorry," said a female employee at the Iceland Information Office. "I can't speak to you. I'm on strike...
...smile on my face this morning," declared United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber at 3 a.m. last Wednesday as he announced a tentative end to the strike by 70,000 of Chrysler's U.S. employees. The weary union leader had good reason to be pleased. In a final, 42-hour bargaining session with Chrysler officials, Bieber won increases in wages and benefits that will put the company's union workers back on a par with their counterparts at Ford and General Motors. The settlement brought an end to the concessions Chrysler's workers made to help the now thriving company...
Chrysler's top negotiator, Thomas Miner, pronounced the company "pleased" at the settlement. The strike, which began Oct. 16, had been costing the company an estimated $17 million a day. While the price tag on the new contract will be a daunting $1 billion over the next three years, the company was in no position this time to play tough with its workers. Morale has suffered because blue-collar employees felt they were missing their share of the company's bounty. The firm last year had profits of $2.4 billion, and is expected this week to announce hefty third-quarter...
...only half-dozen batters he faced. This matched the World Series record of Cincinnati's Hod Eller in 1919 and Baltimore's Moe Drabowsky in 1966, though Worrell's and Drabowsky's achievements must be considered greater than Eller's, since their opponents weren't trying to strike...
...have always defeated any claims. This week in Santa Barbara County, Calif., Superior Court, a case comes to trial. R.J. Reynolds is the sole cigarette manufacturer named in the lawsuit, but tobacco makers are closely following the case. Says Robert Rukeyser, vice president of American Brands, maker of Lucky Strike and Pall Mall: "We take these suits very seriously. We're not complacent." Echoes Aaron Twerski, a law professor at Hofstra University: "The whole world is watching...