Word: whipsawed
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...divide and conquer, the union had called a "whipsaw strike" against one store, hoping that loss of business would force it to come to terms that the other stores would then be forced to follow. Instead, all five stores locked out their clerks and stayed in business with temporary nonunion help. After seven weeks, the union gave up and signed a new contract...
...stores shut down. Disagreeing, the court said that the lockouts were legal because they were not "hostile" to the union; indeed the stores immediately rehired their union clerks after the strike. The lockouts were thus a legitimate "defensive measure to preserve the multiemployer group in the face of the whipsaw strike...
...Whipsaw. The trouble began when Weinberg set his sights on the Fifth Avenue Coach Line, whose routes lace Manhattan and suburban Westchester County. With the shrewd counsel of Lawyer Roy M. Cohn, 35, the boy Torquemada of the McCarthy era, Weinberg and friends bought up 23% of Fifth Avenue's stock for $3,500,000, put Weinberg in the driver's seat. Straightway, he began to complain that the company was barreling toward bankruptcy, demanded a fare boost from 15? to 20? to save it. Mayor Wagner, who had promised to hold fares down, would tolerate none...
...dealer, suspected for years by buyers of having a little larceny in his heart, now complains that it is the buyer who cannot be trusted. Buyers shop around from dealer to dealer, using one man's figures to whipsaw another with. "They stand there with one foot in the door," says one aggrieved dealer, "just waiting to rush to the next place." What is worse, say the dealers, buyers frequently quote fictitious offers to get a better deal. Sometimes when trading in a car, they replace good tires with bad after the deal is set, or strip off seat...
...industry get in such a mess? One cause is the individualistic approach that the airline industry has always taken toward its labor problems. The airlines are so furiously competitive that they have not presented a united front-and thus are easy marks for a united union, which can whipsaw the industry by picking off one company at a time...