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...Such basic industries as steel, chemicals and copper were affected by work stoppages. So were farming and farm machinery, bricklaying, metalworking, bronze refining, shipbuilding, office-machine and computer production, and even toys and teaching. The Ford Motor Co. was shut down and its new-car production halted by a walkout of 161,000 employees. At one end of the television industry, 1,450 employees struck the Fort Wayne...
...Federation envisioned it as a union, with the power to bargain collectively and to strike. The group has thus far shied away from suggestion of unionism, since it was clear last winter that very few teaching fellows were willing to antagonize Harvard and jeopardize their own futures with a walkout. Even now, it is unlikely that enough teaching fellows have been convinced of the University's inflexibility to take drastic action. But there are other, less radical measures the teaching fellows could take--refusing to grade for example...
...frantic bargaining, the union won an extra weekly hour of classroom preparation time for teachers in ghetto elementary schools, but allowed its demand for more power over disruptive students to be turned over to a study committee. At week's end the union threatened to prolong the walkout when fresh disputes broke out over the contract wording of some of the oral agreements, such as for special programs in ghetto schools...
...vast River Rouge complex outside Detroit was eerily still in what should have been one of its busiest weeks. Across the country, 92 other Ford plants were shuttered in the second week of a United Auto Workers walkout. And at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the first time in 35 years, the famed Rockettes, all 46 of them, refused to lift another shapely leg onstage until they were given a minimum of $140 a week (they now earn $99 to start...
...sewers. In New York, Detroit and other scattered spots around the nation, teachers picketed their own schools, forcing hundreds of thousands of children to play hooky (see EDUCATION). Forty-two thousand copper workers in half a dozen states stayed off the job for the ninth week, while a violent walkout of steel truckers in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana interrupted vital steel shipments...