Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...star reporter; and Arnold de Contades, 35, a Prouvost grandson-in-law who has had no previous experience in journalism. Then he drew up a list of several staffers to be dismissed. This action, he maintained, was dictated by economic necessity. And, indeed, profits had slipped somewhat before the strike. By failing to publish four issues during the strikes, Paris-Match had lost at least $1,000,000. Moreover, advertising orders had dropped, and the magazine was hard put to maintain its prestrike 1,280,000 circulation. By trimming the staff, Prouvost estimated that he could save...
...Paris-Match employees, of course, were not buying that line. They promised to economize and voted to strike in October, the first month of heavy fall advertising, if the dismissals were carried out. They fear that the famed Paris-Match spirit has been fatally damaged, that the flamboyant weekly will never be quite the same again. "We are a team, with our 1,000th issue just published," said a veteran staffer. "It was going to be a big fete with a photo exposition at the Louvre with 1,000 pictures. Now, instead, the mood is one of mourning...
Teachers must organize, agitate and, when all else fails, strike, argues Libby Koontz, because "communities recognize power and we must recognize the facts of life." Last year the N.E.A. staged strikes in Florida, Michigan and Albuquerque. She insists that the demand for higher pay does not mean that a teacher is more concerned about himself than his students. "We can be concerned about our kids-and well-paid at the same time. And we're not going to get able young people into teaching unless we improve conditions. All we're saying is that if the schools belong...
...productivity agreements-a step Britain's Labor government calls essential to revive the country's sick economy. Similar labor strife has poisoned industrial relations across the U.K. Most of the jet fleet of British Overseas Airways Corp. lay idle at Heathrow Airport last week because of a strike by 1,050 pilots, who demand that their salaries be doubled to $31,000 a year. BOAC Chairman Sir Giles Guthrie calls the pilots "spoiled children." A three-week-old wildcat strike by 187 female upholstery stitchers has shut down British Ford's huge Dagenham plant, idling...
Powerless Leaders. Of all their labor troubles, wildcat strikes hurt the British the most. Last month a Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers Associations reported that 95% of British strikes are unofficial. The commission found that between 1964 and 1966 there were 2,171 wildcat strikes among the U.K.'s 500 trade unions; they involved 653,400 workers and 1,697,000 lost man-days of work. Over the same period, Britain had only 74 official strikes by 101,100 workers, with 733 000 lost man-days. "Britain is 50 years " behind U.S. the Labor U.S. in labor...