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Site-Seeing. Those contentions were presented to a jury that included two auto workers and three auto workers' wives. The testimony was grim. According to witnesses, safety conditions in the plant were so bad that last year they prompted a wildcat strike. The floors were full of grease from leaky machines; overhead conveyors had no screens to catch falling parts. The aisles were so narrow and cluttered that forklift trucks and workers often could not squeeze by one another; one such truck recently crashed because of faulty brakes, toppling its load and killing the driver. For blacks, there...
Rising production costs and competition from commercial television for advertising are only part of Fleet Street's problem. Thanks to a long tradition of ineffectual management, the newspapers' 40-odd labor unions are able to whipsaw British publishers with wildcat strikes or strike threats close to deadlines that amount to near blackmail. "The unions run our business," concedes Lord Thomson of Fleet, Britain's premier press lord, whose prestigious but money-losing Times is desperate for readers. Adds Thomson: "They even censor our papers...
...days lost in British industry may exceed the total of 10,970,000 for all of last year. That would be the worst record since the great General Strike of 1926. Last week a one-day protest strike against Heath's proposed Industrial Relations Bill-designed to curtail wildcat strikes by making union contracts legally binding-involved more than 1,200,000 workers. Another such walkout is planned for next week...
Before being ordered to Kent on May 2, the Guard units involved had spent four days on active duty fighting a wildcat strike. When the order came, one-third of the force was assembled and given a one-hour review lesson in riot control. Then the whole detachment piled into trucks and headed for the campus...
...nation, which remembers all too well that the Communists were caught plotting a coup in 1948, still takes the hardliners' threats more than half seriously. Last week, in a demonstration of their increased militancy, the tough faction incited workers in key labor unions to go on wildcat strikes against several Finnish industries...