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...could the walkout occur in an industry governed by a no-strike pact? ENA permits strikes over local issues, like job assignments, and some of these are involved in the ore walkout. But the big issue is a miners' demand that they collect incentive payments for increased production, as 85,000 workers in steel mills do. To U.S.W. officials in Pittsburgh, who gave their permission for locals at twelve mines to strike, whether any particular mill or mine grants incentive payments is a local issue, unrelated to the general wage level set by national contracts negotiated under...
Meanwhile, a 46-week-old strike in London has become a riveting symbol of the Labor government's failure to keep labor peace. Charter Road in northwest London has become the scene of ugly battles between police and protesters as a result of a walkout at the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories...
...University showed extreme callousness toward the workers at the hearings, which also brought to light the possibility that Harvard used the new summer hiring policy to punish a shop steward in Eliot House for union-related activities. Last spring, Sylvia Gallagher helped lead a lunch-hour walkout by members of Local 26 for an emergency union meeting. When the University slapped Gallagher with a five-day suspension and docked her two hours pay, she filed a grievance against Harvard with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Several weeks later, Harvard offered Gallagher only a part-time summer job--one that...
...strike story was a sequence of Through the Looking-Glass ironies. The government, which took over Leyland almost two years ago to save it from bankruptcy and now owns 95% of its stock, threatened to cut off promised investment funds if management could not end the walkout. Militant Laborite Hugh Scanlon, president of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, which represents the toolmakers, joined Leyland's labor relations boss Pat Lowry to endorse a strikebreaking ultimatum: go back on the job by Monday or get the sack. With reverse English, Tory politicians and press threw their weight behind...
...Leyland strike wore on, however, all sides backed away from a showdown. The toolmakers' unofficial strike committee, meeting in a Birmingham pub called Good Companions, decided they would ask the strikers for a vote to end the walkout-provided that Leyland and the A.u.E.W. would agree to two conditions: 1) Leyland must publicly withdraw its threat to fire strikers, 2) the strike leaders must be promised a meeting with Leyland and A.U.E.W. executives to air their gripes. The probable agenda for that meeting: standardizing toolmakers' pay in all Leyland plants and restoring the pay differentials, presumably as part...