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...been kept in bad repair. Accidents were so common at the plant that there was one serious injury per employee every year. The day after Gary Thompson was crushed, the Eldon workers walked out--their third wildcat strike in two months. The UAW local didn't support the walkout, though dissident groups inside the plant--like the all-black Eldon Avenue Revolutionary Union Movement--did. Johnson saw all this, and joined it to his own experience: the injuries, the conditions, the bullying foremen who called him "nigger" and "boy." In May he hurt himself in a car accident...
...nation was faced with the certainty that a dreaded nationwide coal strike would begin midnight Monday. The key question was how long the 120,000 union miners would stay out. U.M.W. President Arnold R. Miller predicts a strike lasting about two weeks; Interior Department officials figure that the walkout could go on for three weeks -and that underground mines would stay closed for a week after that while federal inspectors check them for safety. Even a short shutdown would damage the nation's faltering economy. A prolonged walkout would kick up the already high 6% U.S. jobless rate, topple...
...caving in to the union's insistence on wage and benefit increases roughly equal to the 39% over three years that 1.4 million steelworkers won last April, plus a long list of costly noneconomic demands. Even so, those demands are better met without a strike than after a walkout that could have crippled the economy...
...power were demonstrated when, less than a week after the T.U.C.'s pledge of cooperation, 1,800 workers at Ford Motor plants in Dagenham and Halewood went on strike. They are demanding further cost-of-living adjustments after the current escalator agreements expire next month. The walkout has already affected another 15,000 workers at the two plants. Says Arthur Flicker, spokesman for the shop stewards at Ford: "The social contract means nothing to us. It is a matter for the politicians who invented it. If it means that our lads have got to work for less money, then...
Many of the vendors on those waning days of the pennant race contented themselves with the knowledge that they had the solidarity and the guts to walkout on one of the biggest nights of the season and they they really stood up to the employer and screamed right into the boss's face. But when the Phillies come north from Florida next spring, and the same conditions exist as last year, that Saturday night strike will be of little consolation...