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...nation's long-haul trucking slowed drastically, representatives of the industry and the striking Teamsters remained unable to agree on a new contract that came near to meeting the Government's "voluntary" limit of 7% in annual wage and benefit increases. At the same time, a walkout by United Airlines machinists, who are also seeking a guideline-busting settlement, grounded all flights of the U.S.'s largest air carrier and forced the layoff of more than 13,000 pilots, attendants and other crew members...
...avoid provoking the White House into imposing the 80-day cooling-off period under the Taft-Hartley Act. To invoke the law, which would require the drivers to return to work, the President must show that a strike will endanger the nation's health or safety. The partial walkout also would have enabled the union to push for divide-and-conquer settlements with individual firms. To foil that move, trucking industry leaders called for and got a largely successful nationwide lockout of the Teamsters by the companies in the negotiations...
...nation's trucking industry and 270,000 Teamsters union drivers and loaders had a deal. But just before the Saturday midnight deadline, the union broke off negotiations and announced a "selective" strike against a few major trucking companies. The strike, however, was well short of a total walkout that could cripple the economy...
...walkout will affect the health and safety of the economy is another matter. The auto, rubber and electrical workers will be coming to the bargaining table later this year. If the Teamsters thumb down the guidelines, those unions-and others-may follow suit...
...decision to give the floor to the representative of Pol Pot's defeated regime in Cambodia, Soviet Delegate Mikhail Kharlamov stalked out. He was followed moments later by the Czechoslovak delegation. Kharlamov was careful to leave an aide in attendance at the table, but it was the first Soviet walkout from the Security Council since the Korean...