Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Detroit Free Press, is trying to break the srike. If that complaint is upheld, strikers would be entitled to return to jobs now performed by the some1,300 new employees the company says are permanent replacements. The move represents a last-ditch effort by the unions to salvage a walkout that has not gone as well as hoped. The unions, representing more than 2,000 employees ranging from delivery drivers and pressmen to reporters and editors, were united in their conviction that Detroit Newspapers set out to break them. However, they were hindered from the beginning by an inability...
DALLAS: If you blinked, you missed it. American Airlines was back in business Saturday after President Clinton had abruptly intervened shortly after mignight four minutes into a strike by the carrier's 90,000 employees. The airline said fewer than 100 flights worldwide were affected by the walkout, comparing its impact to less than a bad storm at one of its hubs. Much to the joy of skittish travelers, American says it will be back to normal by Sunday. In addition, the airline announced it will slash some fares up to 50 percent and double mileage points to lure back...
DALLAS: If you blinked, you missed it. American Airlines was back in business Saturday after President Clinton had abruptly intervened shortly after mignight four minutes into a strike by the carrier's 90,000 employees. The airline said fewer than 100 flights worldwide were affected by the walkout, comparing its impact to less than a bad storm at one of its hubs. Much to the joy of skittish travelers, American says it will be back to normal by Sunday. In addition, the airline announced it will slash some fares up to 50 percent and double mileage points to lure back...
...airline business, feels that giving too much now may cost the airline dearly later. But a strike could cost more -- the airline stands to lose more in the first week than it stands to gain by winning the contract dispute. In any event, industry analysts don't expect a walkout to last more than 60 days. Hanging over both sides is the memory of the bitter pilots' strike that brought down Eastern Airlines less than a decade...
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...