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...raise since they agreed to defer a 14% pay increase in 1980. "I expect a long strike," said Michael Bakalo, a T.W.U. vice president. Securities analysts noted that the airline has some $400 million in cash on hand that it could use to cushion the impact of a lengthy walkout. But a protracted struggle could severely harm both the troubled airline and the strikers...
...general and Tillman especially, feels free to slander the dead woman: "Daht ol boney-bag he call his muddah grabbin aht every blahck boy on de beach." As bad feelings spread and red tape unreels, the proprietor must store his mother's body in the kitchen freezer, prompting a walkout by the staff...
...second walkout by 2500 Yale University employees was averted last Monday night when members of Local 35, the blue-collar union, voted 362-17 to accept a last minute contract...
...best augury of all is that each side apparently felt that it could not afford to be the obstacle to further negotiations. Moscow evidently concluded that stonewalling was getting it nowhere. Its walkout from the 1983 bargaining failed to stop or even slow the deployment of U.S. missiles in Western Europe, and its long refusal to resume negotiations without rigid preconditions only made the Soviets look obstreperous. Washington similarly could not turn down a halfway reasonable Soviet offer without arousing a storm of protest from allies, Congress and the American public. Summarizes one American official: . "We both needed to come...
Last week, members of both unions suggested returning to work with the same mid-January deadline, claiming the threat of a renewed walkout by both locals would likely prompt a university compromise offer...