Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the deadline passed, the Teamsters called selective strikes against 73 of the 500 companies involved in the negotiations. This was a union effort to flex some muscle but avoid provoking the White House into imposing the 80-day cooling-off period under the Taft-Hartley Act. To invoke the law, which would require the drivers to return to work, the President must show that a strike will endanger the nation's health or safety. The partial walkout also would have enabled the union to push for divide-and-conquer settlements with individual firms. To foil that move, trucking...
...effects of the strike and lockout quickly dented the operations of a wide variety of manufacturing industries. Worst off were the automakers, who stock only a few days' supply of some components. General Motors was forced to cut production and lay off 30,100 hourly workers indefinitely. Ford reduced shifts at 19 of its North American plants. Chrysler closed almost its entire U.S. operation, laying off 77,000 employees in 37 plants...
Meanwhile, the machinists' strike prompted other airlines to put on extra flights to accommodate some of the 130,000 passengers carried daily by United. The machinists' pact is supposed to be exempt from the guidelines if it stays within the bounds of the contract that the machinists signed with TWA before the guidelines were announced, which provided an average 12% annual increase in wages and benefits over three years. Citing the ravages of inflation, the machinists at United have twice rejected a package similar to the one granted by TWA. The 18,600 machinists walked out March...
...save their face with regard to the folly of this strike...
...must not leave the impression that anything was gained by striking. I hope we will stick to the view that the strike was unnecessary and self-defeating; I believe we must be able to demonstrate that they have won nothing by striking," the memo states...