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...following the tense pay negotiations between the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and their employers, a network of local government authorities that manage the brigades; when the talks broke down around 7 a.m., amid cries of betrayal from all sides, the firemen knew they were in for an eight-day walkout - with the possibility of two equally long strikes scheduled before Christmas. For Collis, 46, the immediate problem was financial: the firemen wouldn't be paid while on strike. "The prospect is frightening," he said. "I'm worried about defaulting on the mortgage, and I've just canceled Christmas - there...
...case scenarios imagined by tabloid journalists and military planners ahead of the U.K.'s first fire-services strike in 25 years came to pass. But as the 48-hour shutdown ended, there was no collective sigh of relief either. With the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) planning an eight-day walkout starting Nov. 22 - and two more of equal duration in the run-up to Christmas - there will be plenty of opportunities for those scenarios to play out. Ironically, the absence of a major disaster last week may have reduced the chances of a deal on the firemen's pay demands...
...rifled through files containing details of police agents and their handlers. If the I.R.A. has indeed been spying on the British government, Trimble says, London should throw Sinn Fein out of the power-sharing arrangement. Doubts about the I.R.A.'s intentions have already led Trimble to threaten a January walkout from Stormont. Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid said he wants the police investigation to run its course before any political fallout, but unionists say Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has to rein in the I.R.A. now. The crisis was pulling in Prime Minister Tony Blair, as Trimble headed for Downing...
...settlers in Itamar on the West Bank. EUROPE Empty Skies Travel plans were thrown into chaos as air-traffic controllers went on strike to protest an E.U. plan to put the Continent's airspace under international controls. Almost all French short-haul flights were affected by the one-day walkout, which also hit Greece, Hungary, Italy and Portugal. General strikes in Greece and Spain complicated the situation for travelers. The air-traffic controllers objected to the E.U.'s Single-Skies plan, which would replace national airspaces with zones of control based on international air corridors. French air-traffic controllers said...
...Glasgow where the running battles of Catholic-Protestant sectarianism and workers' rights were fought on the soccer pitch and the shop floor. As a trainee tool cutter and trade union organizer, Ferguson was at the front of an apprentices' strike for better pay in 1960 and again led a walkout in 1964 in support of a sacked colleague. "It was the fight for the fairness of things that got to me," Ferguson later told an interviewer. Sacked, humiliated or verbally roasted players and outmaneuvered club directors appear at regular intervals in The Boss to wonder at his concept of fairness...