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...units, however, and that has sometimes sparked laborrelations conflicts. When Capital Cities bought the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Times Leader in 1978, the new management tried to eliminate some employee benefits. That led to a strike by most of the staff, who started their own daily called Citizens' Voice. The walkout is still going on 6 1/2 years later. Other newspaper acquisitions have turned out more successfully. After Capital Cities bought the Kansas City Star and Times in 1977, dozens of employees were fired or resigned. Since then, though, the company has won the grudging admiration of its Kansas City workers...
...last week the government increased the general sales tax from 10% to 12%, double the level of a year ago. Days later, at Vaal Reefs, the world's largest gold mine, black workers struck for higher pay, in defiance of the mine's management, who insisted that the walkout was illegal. As unrest continued in several black townships, Winnie Mandela, wife of imprisoned Black Leader Nelson Mandela, said in a television interview that she foresaw nothing but more bloodshed: "I am afraid one can only visualize very tragic times ahead of us if the government is not prepared to dismantle...
...facing an estimated $77 million in losses this year, sees the issue as nothing less than survival. The airline had some $400 million in cash reserves on hand when the walkout began, and was prepared to ride out a strike to win an acceptable contract...
...striking colliers went back to work last week. The number of returning miners was the largest since the stoppage began a year ago. On Sunday the N.U.M. leadership made it official: a special conference of union delegates, meeting in London, voted to end the most violent and divisive walkout in Britain since the general strike...
...episode recalled the early 1980s, when Solidarity, the independent trade union, wielded its strike weapon to extract concessions from Poland's Communist leaders. Faced with a threatened 15-minute nationwide walkout called by the now banned labor organization, the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski last week postponed planned food-price hikes averaging some 12%. Unlike the old days, both sides claimed victory. The authorities attributed their decision not to Solidarity's walkout plans but to actions by the officially sanctioned All-Poland Trade Union Alliance, which had also come out against the price rises. The government thus sought to turn...