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Cuomo's latest tactic is a referendum. "As soon as I can," he says, "I want to get two competing statutes on the ballot: the death penalty and life without parole. I still think that during a focused campaign on the issue, one where you can have a real debate instead of a war between 30-second commercials, my view can win." What would Cuomo's line be? "I want voters to know that if they pull the lever for the death penalty, it is the same as pulling the lever on the electric chair...
...long ago, Greyhound's ironfisted tactic would have seemed overly harsh. Just last year, Texas Air chief Frank Lorenzo faced withering criticism for hiring replacements soon after Eastern Air Lines machinists went on strike. But in the past few years the same technique has been used against flight attendants, printers, papermill employees, restaurant workers and others -- both in the public and the private sector. In West Virginia some 15,000 teachers went on strike two weeks ago in a dispute over pay raises. Last week Governor Gaston Caperton suggested that county officials should begin firing the teachers and replacing them...
Although WWP members say they have made some headway into Local 8751, an AFL-CIO steelworkers' union, communists have generally not had much luck with the traditional revolutionary tactic of labor agitation. According to Lawrence, they are more often baited by unionized workers than they are welcomed with open arms...
...filibustering, while annoying to those in the majority, can be an effective political tactic. Minority politicians in this country have often used the approach as a last-ditch effort to affect legislation...
...several city councillors say the tactic is not so much annoying as it is counterproductive to the interests of Walsh's own constituents and the city in general...