Word: walkouts
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...walkout began after Wheeling imposed an 18% reduction in wages and benefits for its 8,200 workers in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The company, which filed for bankruptcy on April 16, acted after a federal judge ruled that its old labor contract could be annulled. The union immediately refused to accept the new work terms and called a strike...
...wonder about what happened in our halls—about why there were always so few girls in AP physics or in the schools’ student government, about why this bothered everyone so much that when I was a junior, a bunch of us staged a day-long walkout and rally to bemoan gender inequality in school. The most controversial aspect of the rally was that we posted “ratios” around the hallways, such as “ratio of males to females who have been student body president?...
...bargaining power for the first time. Factory owners cannot replace disgruntled employees as easily as they once could; wildcat strikes can cripple output for days or weeks. Almost imperceptibly, workers are starting to win concessions. As many as 3,000 employees at Shenzhen-based electronics manufacturer Haiyan staged a walkout in October to protest salaries that were below minimum wage; they were enticed back to the factory floor by a raise and the promise of back pay. A month later, 1,000 employees of the Shanlin electronics factory in the nearby city of Panyu returned to work after...
...year history of Japanese professional baseball, the word "strike" has meant only one thing?and it wasn't a labor walkout. Japanese players are loyal company men first, superstars second, and even in a reform-minded era, baseball is a time capsule of old-fashioned hierarchy. So when players threatened a strike (albeit only on weekend games) last week to protest a plan to combine the two professional leagues and merge the debt-strapped Kintetsu Buffaloes into the Orix BlueWave, it was clear that something was very wrong...
...Kenteris and Thanou have missed tests before (once they were in another country when the people with cups came calling) and suspicion has followed the Greek track team since 2002, when it had nine of the world's 14 drug-test no-shows. The Swedes, curiously, have threatened a walkout if the duo is allowed to compete in their events. But it seemed likely that the I.O.C., which has shown no mercy in doping cases, would recommend the boot...