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...week's end tempers were cooling. The union postponed its strike vote, and negotiations were proceeding smoothly. The AFL-CIO was determined to avoid a rerun of the embarrassing one-day walkout of part of its staff in 1970 (the issue then was wages). Yet tensions will persist within the AFL-CIO's walls -perhaps even after a new contract is signed. Complained one union chief: "This just goes to show that employers are the same everywhere...
Ford, though its market share fell, could take comfort from the way it came through a strike by the U.A.W. that choked off its production completely for four weeks in September and October,'at the start of the 1977-model run. The walkout cost sales of perhaps 200,000 cars-yet Ford's 1976 volume still rose by almost 14%, to 2,256,000 autos. The company's strategy has been to put an almost equal marketing push behind restyled intermediate-size cars and standard-size cars, and they sold almost equally well. The boxy Granada compact...
University officials suspend without pay every worker in Lowell House dining hall, charging them with participating in an unauthorized walkout. The June 1 incident began when a fire raged through the dining hall's kitchen, and the workers abandoned the serving line...
Nearly 60 striking Brown library workers voted Sunday night to end their nearly three-month walkout, ratifying a contract proposal that offers them approximately the same wage increase Brown proposed before the strike began...
...seems determined to show the pilots that "they underestimated us." It will be a walkout without much public sympathy; even in the eyes of some less well-paid Continental employees, the pilots already seem well off. Many pilots own outside businesses (ski resorts, cattle ranches, law practices) and, says Six, there is a feeling that "they are trying to get more free time to devote to those businesses." Concedes Pilot Dick Engle:"Because of the level of salaries, it is pretty hard to persuade people to sympathize with our point of view...