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Already overwhelmed by immigration problems and the runaway costs of unification, Kohl appeared to be losing control. The impression was reinforced by one of the worst waves of labor unrest in the postwar era. The strikes began early last week in the public sector, with transit, garbage, mail and hospital workers walking off their job in many cities around western Germany. Engineering and metal-industry workers followed, staging work stoppages and threatening a full-scale strike if their demands were not met. The issue is pay raises, and workers and employers remain far apart. The unrest, it would seem...
...incidentally, send a few of them out to join in the vicious fun. Their masters provided these journalists with almost no opportunity to do what many of them manifestly wanted to do: interrogate authority about strategy and timetables; question experts who knew something about the patterns of urban unrest; follow up a hundred human-interest stories...
...dozens of malls. Gates initially claimed that his force was simply overwhelmed, but his department had not identified potential trouble spots and did not have enough officers on standby for riot duty as needed, which is standard procedure for some big-city forces, particularly those that have experienced racial unrest...
Just as Australians are looking inward for new avenues of self-expression, industrial life may be reinventing itself along more local and congenial lines. Unprecedented cooperation between business and unions, fostered by nine years of Labor Party government, has led to a sharp drop in industrial unrest and, more important, to dramatic changes in factory organization. When Joe Cummaudo started work in Ford's plastics plant in Melbourne in 1983, he recalls, workers and bosses ate in different canteens and management policy was "like handing out the strap back in school." Since the introduction in 1986 of an employee-involvement...
Aristide, Haiti's first-ever democratically elected leader, brushed away questions about political solutions to the unrest there...