Word: walkout
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...deliver 77 of its 777 jets to Singapore airlines. To do so, the company is giving the machinists almost everything they asked for, including bonuses indexed to company performance, increased job security, expanded medical coverage and an extension of the new contract to a fourth year. The two-month walkout had already delayed the delivery of some 30 planes, costing Boeing hundreds of millions of dollars. Most of the more than 32,000 machinists covered by the new pact are expected to be back on the job Friday...
...replacement workers, the nurses, who were members of the National Health and Human Service Employee union, picketed in weather that sometimes sank to -29 degrees C. "I would like to think our strike was a step forward for the labor movement," says Sue Murphy, a leader of the walkout...
...fact, it's a dispute over bonuses that caused the recent walkout. Salomon's principal owner, Warren Buffett, dared to break with tradition and challenge the pay system, the way baseball owners have. Being a no-nonsense businessman from the Midwest and also a team player, Buffett introduced the notion that since Salomon was a business as well as a team, the players shouldn't expect bonuses if the team screwed up. This did not go over well in the clubhouse...
Boris Yeltsin knows that miners' strikes in 1989 and 1991 loosened Mikhail Gorbachev's grip on the presidency. So when half a million miners staged a one-day walkout last week to protest nonpayment of wages, Yeltsin scrambled to pledge $500 million for the industry...
...General Motors strike that started at an AC Delco plant in Flint, Michigan has now spread to nine more factories that produce some of the company's hottest products. The walkout has idled 30,900 workers. Plants in Pontiac, Lansing, Orion Township, Auburn Hills, and Buick City, Mich., as well as Doraville, Georgia, Janesville, Wisconsin, Ste. Therese, Quebec and Oshawa, Ontario were closed or crippled. The plants assemble cars on which GM is banking heavily, such as the Chevy Lumina and Pontiac Firebird, as well as the popular Chevy Suburban and Blazer sports utility vehicles, says TIME Detroit bureau chief...