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Three hundred and fifty non-medical employees of the Cambridge and Kenmore Harvard Community Health Plan (HCHP) remained on the job yesterday after a last-minute settlement averted a threatened walkout...
...cuts in missiles in return for a ban on Star Wars. That point was as sticky as ever. President Reagan, again last week affirmed his determination to proceed with research and testing of his Strategic Defense Initiative. Behind the scenes in Geneva, Soviet officials had hinted at a possible walkout if there was no movement...
Although both sides hope to avert a long strike, the walkout is still sure to hurt. Wall Street analysts estimate that the firm could lose more than $60 million in after-tax profits for every week workers are out. The company hardly plays down the threat. Says Thomas Miner, Chrysler's vice president for industrial relations: "This whole company is paralyzed, and we'll start to bleed to death." U.S. negotiations recessed for the weekend, although talks continued in Canada. The Chrysler strike comes just as the U.S. auto industry is completing a banner year, projecting sales of 15.5 million...
...United pilots agreed to return to work last week after a bitter month-long walkout that cut the airline's schedule to just 14% of its normal 1,550 flights...
...failed walkout did nothing to strengthen the position of British labor unions, which was battered earlier this year in a national coal strike. Concluded an editorial in the Guardian: "Union activists can misjudge the mood among the poor bloody infantry and find themselves galloping off at the head of a phantom army...