Word: strikingly
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When United Parcel Service (UPS) workers went on strike two weeks ago, they intended to impair the shipping company's business; yet the labor dispute may also hurt students and professors this fall when needed text fail to arrive at academic bookstores across the nation...
WASHINGTON: Ron Carey, president of the Teamsters and instigator of the week-old strike at UPS, signalled today that he wasn't about to be bullied by the firm's threat to eliminate 15,000 jobs by week...
...strike will not be decided by threats and intimidation," said Carey. "That's not what the strike is about." UPS started playing hardball with the Teamsters this morning, when Chief executive James Kelly warned that job losses would mount week-by-week if the strikers don't get back to work. But for a company that makes $1billion profit a year, Carey finds it hard to believe that UPS will have to fire workers because of lost business...
...timing of the job loss threat is also somewhat bizarre, considering yesterday's attempt by UPS to break the strike deadlock with a soundbite-friendly rallying cry for company democracy: "Let our people vote." Rather than the teamsters' council of elders, said the company, the union rank-and-file should have the last say on whether the company's contract offer sinks or swims. Today's threat will have workers wondering how genuine that offer...
...terror strike last Wednesday was the worst since Netanyahu came to office 13 months ago, vowing he could deliver progress toward peace together with the security Israelis crave. While he has borne much of the criticism for stalling peace negotiations, he laid the blame for the bombing squarely on Arafat, who has lately made vigilance against Islamist militants a low priority. Within hours of the blast, Netanyahu responded with a program of unprecedentedly tough retaliatory measures. These amounted, in Arafat's view, to "a declaration of war," a characterization Netanyahu didn't even bother to dispute. "You can't have...