Word: walkout
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...talks were jolted by union rejection of the owners' proffered terms, and Labor Secretary Ray Marshall disclosed that a government takeover of the mines was among the worst-case scenarios being studied by the Administration. Meanwhile, Governors from the twelve Eastern-Central states most deeply hurt by the walkout arrived in Washington to coordinate their plans with the President and his energy advisers...
...also said that the peace talks were not "dead" but added sadly: "It's obvious we have hit a bump in the road." Vance, who had served as the essential mediator between the Israeli and Egyptian Foreign Ministers during the talks, flew from Jerusalem to Cairo after Kamel's walkout, in a futile effort to get the negotiations going again. He found an enraged Sadat obsessed with Begin's "arrogance" and what he regarded as Israeli intransigence...
...much over money -the miners earn up to $63 a day plus benefits-as over an issue that seems more emotional than rational. The union is demanding that each of its 1,200 locals have the right to strike whenever a majority of its members vote for a walkout. For the operators, this would defeat the whole purpose of a contract. The result might be a condition of anarchy, as compared with the disarray that already prevails in the mines. All this year, one wildcat strike after another has been called by rebellious locals over issues that ranged...
...contract with the coal companies. (With so little time remaining, few miners felt compelled to work beyond the shift ending at midnight Saturday, and the companies were not scheduling Monday production.) Thus began what will probably be a long stoppage, perhaps twice as long as the 32-day walkout in 1974, over a strange issue: the U.M.W.'s demand that its locals be given the right to strike individual mines when a national agreement is in effect, provided that 51% of a local's members approved...
...threat to job security. Teddy Gleason, the I.L.A.'s crusty boss, who turned 77 last week, summoned his 130-man wage-scale committee to the new talks, at New York's Downtown Athletic Club, and there were rumors that the shippers were feeling pressures to enable the walkout to end. Any deal, however, would have to be approved by the rank and file, so containers will not begin moving immediately and the shortages will last a bit longer...