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...unthinkable. "When someone's sick, you have to treat him," says Dr. Kenneth G. Burton, a general practitioner who heads the two-year-old American Physicians Union, which is headquartered in San Antonio. But it is not inconceivable that U.S. physicians may some day take part in a walkout. Says Yount: "The ultimate weapon of any organization is the threat of withdrawal of services...
...Guild abandoned plans for a library employees' walkout when an acceptable search committee was formed, Musser said. "We accepted the word of the (library) commission that this was an acting appointment," she said...
...later was an official of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Usery has made no enemies as the Government's "middleman" in labor disputes. He has been a tenacious round-the-clock bargainer who often appealed to negotiators' patriotism. Usery was instrumental in averting a walkout of 13,000 railroad signalmen in 1969 and later settled a bitter, eleven-week teachers' strike in Philadelphia. In directing and coordinating the political, civil rights and community-affairs activities of the AFL-CIO'S extensive field staffs, he is expected to wield enormous influence within the labor...
...boycott triggered by that initial walkout has spread from coast to coast, forced down the price of Farah stock, and clearly shoved the company against the wall. How else to explain Farah's determined and frightened claims in newspapers far from Texas that all is well in its El Paso plant? Farah's claims are all outrageous. For example, one of the company's ads cites "an above average wage scale" as one of the benefits that accrue to fortunate Farah workers. In response, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers -- who are spearheading the unionization drive -- testified before the National Labor Relations...
...duration of last week's walkout against the Chrysler Corporation, the baby of the Big Three auto manufacturers, did challenge the record books: It was the shortest in UAW history. In comparison to past UAW actions, the cost of the shut-down to Chrysler was inconsequential...