Word: traded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That "I'm all right, Jack" stance has dealt a mortal blow to the anti-inflation wage policies of Prime Minister James Callaghan. Although his Labor government has close links with the trade unions, Callaghan has had no success in restraining workers' demands for contract settlements that would greatly exceed his 5% wage-ceiling guidelines. The dam began to burst last fall, when Ford Motor Co. workers wrested a 17% raise after a bruising two-month strike. Since then, few unions have been willing to settle for less. The truckers, for example, have spurned a 15% hike proposed...
...since the General Strike of 1926 have so many British trade unionists been pulled off their jobs in quest of pay hikes. For the third straight week, a strike by 80,000 truck drivers slowed trade and industry to a near standstill. Locomotive drivers repeated crippling one-day work stoppages that forced hundreds of thousands of commuters into their cars and onto highways made treacherous by a blanket of snow. Still more troubles loomed as London's subway workers considered striking this week. Four public employees unions, whose 1.5 million members include nursery attendants, teachers, hospital workers and crematory...
Many Britons decided to fight back on their own. In Reading, Orthopedic Surgeon Patrick Chesterman curtly told half a dozen union members who were waiting for treatment: "I'm terribly sorry, but I'm not serving trade unionists today." At the Dog and Partridge pub in Bury St. Edmunds, the owner's wife refused to serve lunch to two senior officers of the National Union of Public Employees. United Biscuits, a maker of cookies, persuaded a high court judge to issue an injunction against picketing truckers...
...given jurisdiction over trucking by Congress in 1935. During the next four decades the ice proceeded to put trucking into the same straitjacket that it had fashioned for railroads. Truck routes were spelled out in minute detail New lines were permitted to enter interstate trade only if they could prove they would provide a service that existing carriers could not. Thanks to an antitrust exemption granted by Congress in 1948 truckers have been allowed to set their own rates, and they have prospered greatly. Indeed, over the past eight years the eight largest truck lines have earned an average...
...line's scoring punch is the final element in a carefully considered formula for success. When the N.H.L. mushroomed from six to 18 teams a decade ago, most new franchises tried to trade for instant respectability, lavishing huge contracts on fading veterans. But Islander General Manager William Torrey concluded that the future lay in the future: "You can't build a championship club out of someone else's rejects." So the Islanders searched the amateur ranks for talented youngsters and set them to playing cautious, defense-minded hockey until they matured. Says Torrey: "We had to play...