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...walkout, which could cost Chrysler $15 million a week, is clearly a financial threat to the company. The automaker immediately laid off 2,500 U.S. workers who produce parts used in Canada and said that another 3,500 could be let go if a settlement is not reached within several weeks. The Canadian shutdown also cuts output of the highly profitable Dodge vans and New Yorker models, all of which are assembled in Windsor...
Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca tried using both carrots and sticks last week to avoid the walkout. He first sent Canadian workers a strongly worded warning: "We will take a strike if we must, even though we are aware that it could put us out of business." Some employees responded by burning the letter. lacocca then flew to Toronto to make a personal but unavailing eleventh-hour appeal...
...refusing to grant immediate pay hikes two weeks ago, Chrysler Corp. had almost dared its workers to strike. A walkout could easily bankrupt the sputtering company, but Chairman Lee lacocca was gambling that the rank and file would not take that risk. When the showdown ballot came last week, lacocca won his bet, at least temporarily. By a tally of 70% to 30%, the workers voted to stay on the job and postpone negotiations on a new contract until January. That strategy had been pushed by United Automobile Workers President Douglas Fraser, who reasoned that an improved U.S. economy...
Solidarity organizers, however, read the mourners' show of defiance as a signal for the union to enter "a new phase of struggle." In a communiqué that reached Western newsmen in Warsaw Saturday, five underground leaders called for stepped up strikes and demonstrations, culminating in an "ultimate" nationwide walkout next spring. Charging that the regime was "deaf to the nation's needs," they urged workers to begin with a day-long work stoppage on Nov. 10, the second anniversary of Solidarity's registration in court. In Gdansk, Walesa's wife Danuta reported that her husband...
Less hurt by the walkout is the Ford Motor Co., which decided earlier this year to become the exclusive auto sponsor of the 1982 World Series for $1.1 million per game. Said Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell: "We anticipated the strike and didn't invest as much in N.F.L. football this season...