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...similar appeal for assistance at the Soviet embassy. TASS said that Soviet miners have contributed half a million pounds to the British miners' union. The strike was also weakened by last month's decision of the smaller mine safety supervisors' union not to join the N.U.M. walkout. If the supervisors had struck, all of Britain's 174 coal mines would have been shut down, including those that have been operating during the strike...
...Leader Muammar Gaddafi. Three months ago, in an effort to prevent such a decision and to end Libyan support for the Polisario Front, Hassan signed a surprise unity agreement with Gaddafi. But his new ally proved to be no friend in need; only Zaïre joined the Moroccan walkout...
...strike by 36,000 Canadian autoworkers against General Motors started out two weeks ago as only a minor nuisance for the giant automaker, but it soon escalated into a major problem. Because of parts shortages caused by the walkout, GM had to lay off 40,965 hourly workers at 30 U.S. plants in ten states. Canadian Union Boss Robert White was demanding that his GM workers receive a bigger wage increase than the one their U.S. counterparts got in their new contract. White, though, was under heavy pressure from United Auto Workers President Owen Bieber to settle the strike quickly...
With auto sales strong, as they now are, strikes can be costly. GM announced last week that its third-quarter earnings fell 43%, largely because of the one-week walkout by U.S. workers in September. Securities analysts figure that the first seven days of the Canadian strike cost GM $35 million; the losses would have risen to $135 million a week if there had not been a settlement...
...techniques that keep inventories low, it could run out of vital parts in just a few days. Even worse, its dealers in both the U.S. and Canada could find themselves quickly short of new models, in part because new-car stocks are still depleted by the seven-day U.A.W. walkout in the U.S. a month...