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...Congressman John Dingell of Michigan chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. "But the economic situation in the country leaves little alternative." Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis had predicted that the strike would cost the nation's economy $80 million a day, but it appeared that the walkout actually inflicted far less damage...
...were other signs that life was getting back to less than buoyant normality in Britain. Workers for the National Health Service called a one-day nationwide strike last week. The London underground was crippled as strikers closed down the entire system. And this week railway workers are planning a walkout that could go on for weeks...
...Mitterrand faces a major challenge from people of his own party's stripe: French workers. After a honeymoon period of benign cooperation with the government, unions are becoming increasingly unruly. Last month a walkout disrupted production at the country's two major automobile companies, Renault and Citroën. Laborers at both firms were demanding higher wages and other benefits. Coming from the Socialist President's natural constituency, such unrest should remind Mitterrand that support can never be taken for granted, and that in politics, seven years, not to say 14, is a very long time...
Whatever the label, the desire to share the wealth appears firmly set, and there is much talk of a strike this summer. The present contract runs out in July, and even players who do not favor the fixed percentage proposal are saying they will support a walkout. Naturally, the owners too are talking tough. The union proposal, says N.F.L. Negotiator Jack Donlan, is "alien to American business" and "would be tantamount to getting control" of the league. Donlan threatens a possible lockout if no agreement is reached and hints at fielding teams of nonunion rookies and free agents. Should that...
Fagone was credited in the fall of 1980 with carrying the public works department through a successful municipal 350th birthday celebration despite the walkout of public works employees...