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...they are not about to cast off these "rights" so easily. Attempts to cut back on benefits and job security have resulted in violent labor protests in Italy and massive demonstrations in Germany. A crippling walkout by Air France employees forced the government to back down on plans to cut 4,000 jobs. "We are on a dangerous road," warns Rudolf Dressler, the deputy party whip of Germany's opposition Social Democrats. Yet even welfare's staunchest defenders concede that fixes are needed. The system is going bankrupt. The huge sums Europeans pay to support it -- taxes average more than...
...United Mine Workers expanded its four-week old strike against coal producers last week, bringing to 9,200 the number of miners who have stopped work -- a far cry from the 1950 walkout when 370,000 striking U.M.W. members crippled the nation's industries. As the chart below indicates, few strikes of any kind occur anymore...
Unlike that of the tightly wound anchorman hero of Network, Dan Rather's public weirdness (the mysterious assaults, his live-TV walkout) preceded the indignities imposed by the network bosses (his closest CBS colleagues purged, his story ideas slighted). But the scenario is still Chayefskian, and now there's a real-life Network II: in a goose-the-ratings gambit, the bosses oblige the battered, brave protagonist (Rather) to accept a hustling, not exactly cerebral woman (Connie Chung) as his co-anchor...
...threw the Expo-promoting Socialists out of city hall last spring. "The state wastes money building pharaonic bridges and highways," says new Mayor Alejandro Rojas Marcos. "But it neglects schools, drug problems and employment." In recent months wildcat strikes shut down Asturias coal mines; an eight-week bus-driver walkout crippled Madrid; Basque steel workers fired homemade rockets at police, and La Mancha farmers blocked the roads with tractors. On May 28, a third of the country's workers joined in a general strike, bringing to 50 million the number of working hours lost to work stoppages, far more than...
...Peninsula members involved inorganizing the protest said they were disappointedby the walkout...