Word: walkout
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...course, spring break in western Florida has an entirely different meaning to many locals and tourists alike: baseball's spring training. Barring a players' walkout, you can catch the Chicago White Sox in Sarasota, the Pittsburgh Pirates in Bradenton, or the Cincinnati Reds in Tampa, just to name...
...scuffles and nearly $65 million in court-ordered fines against the United Mine Workers union. But last week both sides in the dispute were smiling. After two months of federally mediated talks, the U.M.W. and the Connecticut- based Pittston Co. reached a tentative agreement to end the rancorous walkout that had crippled the company's coalfields in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. Some 1,700 miners and 4,000 laid-off and ill union members will vote on the contract as early as next week...
...stress levels in the airline industry eased last week, when three major labor disputes were resolved. Just as 57,800 striking Boeing machinists were heading back to work, 2,250 Eastern Air Lines pilots and 4,400 flight attendants ended a bitter nine-month walkout...
...first strike against Boeing in twelve years, the walkout came after a federal mediator failed to bring labor and management together on a new contract. Union Vice President Justin Ostro drew cheers from machinists in Seattle's Kingdome when he declared, "There is no good time to strike, only a right time to strike...
...talks have been scheduled on ending the walkout. The machinists can fall back on their $90 million strike fund, but Boeing is under pressure to deliver 94 more jet airliners before year-end. In the interim, Boeing intends to use supervisors and nonunion personnel to put the final touches on dozens of jets that stand virtually completed at its assembly plants in Renton and Everett, Wash. The company pledges to observe strict safety standards. But the Federal Aviation Administration, taking no chances, announced last week that it would "significantly expand" its inspections of the company's assembly lines to ensure...