Word: walkout
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Conciliator James Dewey's tireless efforts, set up a board on which top-ranking Ford men will confer with union men and public officials to adjust grievances that cannot be settled by plant committees. Ford agreed to reinstate five of the men whose dismissals precipitated a walkout at the huge Rouge plant. The union agreed to leave the cases of three others in arbitration. Both sides agreed to cooperate in an NLRB election to determine finally whether C.I.O. or A.F. of L. had a majority in the plant and" was entitled to be certified as exclusive bargaining agent...
With a flurry of mimeographed broadsides, the Harvard - Radcliffe Peace Strike Committees prepared the way this weekend for their Wednesday walkout from classes...
...mine operators and workers to agree on a new contract shut down most of the country's soft-coal mines, resulted in death to five men in bloody Harlan County, Ky. Negotiations between C.I.O. and U.S. Steel reached an impasse and union leaders set the date for a walkout. The far-reaching Ford strike (see p. 21) made things seem even worse...
...idea current in Washington, however, was that neither side at Allis-Chalmers-union or management-cared passionately about settling the dispute. President of the C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers local which called the walkout is tall, lantern-jawed Harold Christoffel, who has been labeled a Communist fellow traveler. The Socialist Party recommended his expulsion from its ranks in 1938, on that suspicion. Before he had to face the charge (which he denied), Christoffel resigned. He and his supporters rejected a Knudsenhillman formula for settlement of this strike...
...rumble of C. I. O.'s struggle with Bethlehem Steel was gathering into a roar. C. I. O. steelworkers, asserting that 300 fellow employes had been locked out of a coke plant in a dispute over a wage increase, voted to call a general strike in protest. A walkout at Lackawanna would affect 14,000 men, tie up millions of dollars of defense orders...