Word: wildcats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...settlement will increase the shipowners' labor costs at least 9.5% over a two-year period, shattering Wilson's 3.5% annual-increase guideline against inflation. Even so, the Communists and many of the more militant union members were still not satisfied, and might vent their unhappiness with wildcat strikes on some docks...
Extreme Positions. The dispute might never have come to a strike except for the internal tensions within Britain's National Union of Seamen. The present crisis dates back to 1960, when a group of Communist renegades from the union succeeded in pulling off several wildcat strikes against British shipping. Figuring that it would be better to have the Communists back in his union where he could keep an eye on them, Union Chief William Hogarth invited the troublemakers into his union's inner council. They have pushed him into increasingly extreme positions. To the Labor government...
...Buick LeSabre '65s and Wildcat '65s turned up a batch of cars with weak wheels; they were replaced on 11,257 cars...
...opposition head on, detailed OEO's considerable accomplishments, and expressed his own impatience with not being able to do more faster. He likened the poor to labor-union members, who must sometimes settle for less than their full demands. "The American society can't afford wildcat strikes in the industrial area; even less can it afford wildcat strikes on the entire social order-and that's what Watts...
...beat the international ban on Rhodesian tobacco, Smith threw a tight security net around the normally raucous auction sheds, cut prices and offered wildcat buyers guarantees of absolute secrecy. Gone were the chanting auctioneers, the throngs of spectators. Instead, armed guards turned away all unauthorized visitors, and the floors last week were empty except for a scattering of watchful officials and carefully anonymous buyers wandering through the rows of heaped leaf. There was no open bargaining; transactions were quietly conducted by government agents, and anyone caught leaking information about sales was subject to two years in prison...