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Last Sunday afternoon, like everyone else in Los Angeles, I went on strike. I staged the walkout on the second floor of Fred Segal, the colorful Melrose emporium where hipsters like Charlize Theron and Michael Stipe roam among the Oliver Peoples sunglasses, Kate Spade luggage and the kinds of clothes made possible by perfect physiques and first-dollar gross participation. I went because Fred Segal was having a sale. "Up to 75 percent off!" they promised. A white shirt on a sale rack caught my eye. I liked it because the fabric weave contained nearly indiscernible but daring white circles...
...dress rehearsal for the fractious negotiations expected as the contracts for SAG and the Writers Guild expire in the spring. In 1988 a writers' strike lasted 22 weeks; film production shrank and the fall TV season was delayed for two months. Now, in anticipation of a 2001 walkout, studios are rushing scripts into production faster than usual. Some TV bosses have already ordered extra episodes of some series that can be shown next fall...
...though, there were other signals that should perhaps have caught Ford's attention. As Firestone struggled to keep up with the insatiable appetite for Explorers, labor strife was brewing at its Decatur plant--dubbed the war zone by activists. A bitter 10-month walkout in 1994-95 left the assembly lines in the hands of unskilled replacement workers, who had few veterans to train under, and the labor dispute wasn't finally resolved until 1996. When the strike was settled, many of the old hands did not return to their jobs, and Firestone's Japanese parent, Bridgestone, shifted supervisors around...
...though, there were other signals that should perhaps have caught Ford's attention. As Firestone struggled to keep up with the insatiable appetite for Explorers, labor strife was brewing at its Decatur plant - dubbed the war zone by activists. A bitter 10-month walkout in 1994-95 left the assembly lines in the hands of unskilled replacement workers, who had few veterans to train under, and the labor dispute wasn't finally resolved until 1996. When the strike was settled, many of the old hands did not return to their jobs, and Firestone's Japanese parent, Bridgestone, shifted supervisors around...
...Take the Verizon strike, in which management took the risk of a labor walkout and then discovered that in the high-tech, high-growth telecommunications industry, where employees are hard to find, hard to train and harder to keep, the lowly worker has quite a bit of clout. Some of the workers' victories in the deal, reached early Monday, that should effectively end the 15-day strike, according to the Wall Street Journal...