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...ratification to the union's feisty rank and file, the U.M.W.'s 160,000 soft-coal miners overwhelmingly rejected it. Workers and employers then began digging in for what suddenly promised to be a prolonged strike. The longest on record: the U.M.W.'s 111-day walkout in 1977 and early...
...which closed down its entire transit system for 26 hours last December, has just enough money to operate its subways and buses (300,000 riders) through the fall. City officials have already been forced to lay off 100 of its 6,700 transit workers, and only narrowly averted a walkout last week by postponing the layoffs of an additional 220 employees...
...Social Democrats within the next month, they will become the first significant national party to be formed in Britain since Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1932. For Labor, it was the most dramatic defection since 1931, when Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald led a walkout in order to head a national government...
...Hurvitz walked out, two other members of his tiny Rafi Party and two or three other political allies would be expected to follow and thus reduce Begin's majority of 63 Knesset members to fewer than 60, not enough to survive a no-confidence motion. A Hammer walkout would be even more devastating, since he would be expected to take with him most or all of the twelve-member delegation of the National Religious Party. Another danger was the highly credible threat that if the decision went against them, the teachers would stage a nationwide strike...
...effect it had." Wojciech Gruszecki, 44, who has been advising Poland's private farmers, has a doctorate in chemical engineering. Says he: "At a certain age, every citizen should give something to his society and his nation." That age came early for Andrzej Kolodziej, who helped organize the walkout at the Gdynia shipyard. "They couldn't believe I was only 21 years old," he said last week. "I had to show them my identity card...