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After a three-day strike, Cornell's service and maintenance workers last week returned to work after accepting the terms the university proposed before the walkout...
This will be the first time the union and university meet at the bargaining table since the 10-week strike, which closed dining halls and disrupted student life, and union representatives said that another walkout could occur...
Harvard defensive back Tom Mawhinney '90disagreed, saying he was "torn" about the walkout."The players have every right to strike," he said."But I can see the owners' point in not havingsky-high salaries--like baseball...
...Union can summon the political will to begin reversing the arms race. Since 1981, when Reagan first proposed what eventually became known as the zero-zero option (meaning simply dismantling all intermediate-range missiles), there has been a long series of negotiations, interrupted for 16 months by a Soviet walkout that began in 1983. When Shevardnadze's team $ arrived in Washington, the toughest remaining question was what to do about 72 Pershing IA shorter-range missiles, owned by West Germany and equipped with U.S. warheads...
...impact rippled across the border, idling 1,400 workers at Chrysler's plant in Belvidere, Ill., where most production was shut down for lack of Canadian-made parts, and 500 additional employees at a stamping plant operated by the firm in Warren, Mich. The Canadian union ended its walkout after four days, when Chrysler agreed to index the pensions of future retirees to inflation, up to an annual rate of 6%. The top rate will be 5% for current pensioners. Union leaders hope that the provision will encourage older workers to retire, helping preserve the jobs of younger workers...