Word: strikingly
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ATLANTA: No talks are scheduled and none are planned to break the deadlock in the strike that is crippling UPS. TIME's Jef McAllister says President Clinton, stung by flak he took for intervening in the baseball strike two-and-a-half years back, won't be stepping up to this plate any time soon. It's enough to make you go back to the U.S. Postal Service. First a FedEx jet crashes and burns to a crisp in Newark, leaving all packages on board well done. Now a United Parcel Service walkout has managers handling a small fraction...
...putting a booster in the P-38. The strike leader can always use a little extra power...
ATLANTA: As shippers across the country scrambled to find an alternative package delivery system, 185,000 United Parcel Service Teamsters walked off the job at on minute after midnight Monday morning after negotiators failed to agree on a new contract. The strike is expected to upset delivery service to thousands of businesses nationwide and will cost the company an estimated $50 million a day. Federal Express and the U.S. Postal Service have made contingency plans to take up the slack, but say they may have difficulty handling the additional load. Adding to the delivery giant's difficulties is a promise...
Yale officials requested the dismissal on the grounds that the GESO's withholding of grades was only a partial strike, which is not protected under labor law. When teaching fellows refused to release students' grades in the winter of '95-'96, they continued teaching, grading papers and exams and writing recommendations--just not submitting grades...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: UPS trucks continued to roll after negotiations between the delivery giant and the Teamsters union continued past a strike deadline. Teamsters President Ron Carey said today that union workers would remain on the job as long as the two sides continue to talk. A federal mediator restarted the negotiations last night, averting a widespread walkout. The dispute centers on the Teamsters' insistence on a multi-employer pension pool, rather than a less-secure plan covering only UPS employees. The Teamsters are also pressing management to increase pay, limit subcontracting and create more full-time jobs. If the talks...