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...could not have arranged: the respected news radio station Ekho Moskvy went off the air for a few minutes as guards moved into the NTV studios. (Ekho Moskvy is part of the Media-Most group but not the subject of any disputes.) The seizure of the studios and the walkout by the journalists may also have diminished American TV magnate Ted Turner's prospects of acquiring a substantial minority interest...
...with a local work force topping 100,000 at its peak, the company found itself in fierce competition for skilled workers, not to mention in an increasingly antagonistic relationship with the ones it already had. Last year the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace staged a 38-day walkout. The unions suspect Boeing's move as the beginning of a plan to take assembly work out of the Seattle area. With some reason: two days later, Boeing confirmed it would move fuselage assembly on its 757 jets from nearby Renton to a plant in Wichita, Kans...
...Germany's Thyssen-Krupp in the running for Cockerill. When the Germans pulled out, Usinor got Cockerill's mills by default. Now those same mills are part of the new company-the most expendable part. No surprise then that workers there greeted the merger announcement with a one-day walkout...
...animosity broke out again last week when American's 23,500 flight attendants, who have been without a contract for more than two years, agreed to take a strike vote later this month. If the members approve a walkout--and you can count on it--the strike could begin in late February. That's just when American's six-year contract with its 30,000 mechanics and ground-crew workers runs out. Says John Ward, president of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants: "It is ironic that American can find more than $5 billion for these various assets...
...thump- thumping trailer for "The Contender," psych yourself up for a thriller, then, when it opens Oct. 13, pay $8 to see what's actually a thoughtful political drama starring Joan Allen in business suits and Gary Oldman in a Mike Brady perm. You may want to stage a walkout yourself, and that's just what I did at Fred Segal, vowing not to return until the establishment had shed its ridiculous quota policies...