Word: walkout
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...biggest walkout was in Philadelphia, where 13,000 teachers demanded a 34% pay raise, shorter working hours and smaller classes. In response, the school board, which already faces a $52 million deficit, proposed that 485 jobs be eliminated and that teachers accept more work and only token pay raises. Both sides predict that the strike may last as long as three months. In Detroit, on the other hand, the city's 11,000 teachers agreed that because the city is nearly bankrupt they would accept a new contract containing neither pay increases nor improvements in working conditions...
...make between $185 and $205 a week, not bad by British standards but far below the minimum of $272 that UPI must pay journeymen in New York. They joined Britain's National Union of Journalists in a bid for shorter work hours, and when the N.U.J. called a walkout to support them, UPI fired 28 British staffers in the London office. With that, the union staged a full-scale strike and ordered all 17 UPI clients in Britain not to use any of the agency's copy or pictures. The deadlock continued at week's end, with...
...last minute for the third game, but also display the effrontery to demand that it be played in a dingy back room, ordinarily used for Ping Pong. "Just this once. Never again," said Boris, thereby sealing his own doom. By remaining intransigent, he probably could have provoked another walkout by Bobby and won the entire match by forfeit. Gradually falling behind after Bobby played an unorthodox move early in the game, Spassky finally extended his hand in defeat at the 41st move; it was the first time he had ever lost to Fischer. Boris was still leading...
...griped about the lights and the chessboard at Reykjavik's Sports Hall, and he ordered his own $500 swivel chair to be air-freighted from the U.S. Even after the start of the first game -for which he arrived seven minutes late-he staged a 35-minute walkout because, he said, he was distracted by an almost invisible camera 150 ft. away...
...obvious inequities in the reserve-clause system. If it does not, the players seem determined to gain concessions from the owners, either through collective bargaining before the start of next season or, if necessary, a strike. If another strike is indeed called, it might well last longer than the walkout over pensions that delayed the start of the current baseball season by 13 days...