Word: strikingly
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...National Labor Relations Board has filed a lawsuit in federal court as a result of the tactics used by the Yale administration during the grade strike by Teaching Assistants (TAs) in December...
Bulgaria, fueled by the one thing sure to unite an angry nation: poverty. In the industrial town of Pernik, 2,000 miners gathered at dawn at the regional mining directors' office, demanding higher wages as well as the ouster of the director. Evtim Evtimov, strike committee leader at the St. Anna coal mine, reminded workers that late wages were paid immediately when miners threatened to strike last month. "That means there is money," he said. "We won't back off these demands." Until this week, protesters in Bulgaria were mostly white-collar workers and students. But now the Socialists...
Bulgaria, fueled by the one thing sure to unite an angry nation: poverty. In the industrial town of Pernik, 2,000 miners gathered at dawn at the regional mining directors' office, demanding higher wages as well as the ouster of the director. Evtim Evtimov, strike committee leader at the St. Anna coal mine, reminded workers that late wages were paid immediately when miners threatened to strike last month. "That means there is money," he said. "We won't back off these demands." Until this week, protesters in Bulgaria were mostly white-collar workers and students. But now the Socialists...
...21/2-week boycott of parliament in hope of a compromise. "If there is the will and consensus, Parliament can endorse in a short term the necessary laws, and early elections can be called." Kostov said. But impatient leaders of Bulgaria's three major trade unions have called a nationwide strike beginning Wednesday that may turn urgency into desperation. To union workers already struggling with low wages and skyrocketing prices, political protest is a luxury they can ill afford. "The situation is the worst ever, maybe in the history of Bulgaria," said Elena Altimirska, a student. "At the moment, the intelligentsia...
DALLAS: American Airlines pilots are preparing to stage a walkout if their contract demands are not met. The dispute, which could throw American Airlines into the grips of a full-scale strike by February 15, comes only a few months after the union and the company appeared to have reached a period of d?tente. A tentative agreement was reached in September of 1996, after 2 years of hard-fought negotiations that had stalled the growth of the airline, forcing it to hold back on the purchase of 103 planes, worth $6.6 billion. In September, it seemed that American would finally...