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Despite sporadic clashes between protesters and police, Iran showed few signs last week of the turmoil that has engulfed it for the past two months. Oil production was almost back to normal, following a three-week walkout by workers at the country's refineries and rigs. A wildcat strike by power workers caused blackouts in the capital of Tehran, but after soldiers took over the power stations the workers returned to their jobs...
...addition, Mobil has strengthened its position as an oil and gas producer with major interests in the North Sea and Alaska, and has had incredible luck in the Gulf of Mexico. Last year it sank 28 wildcat wells there and struck oil in 14, a feat about equal to a baseball player hitting .425. Mobil has the most important nonenergy businesses of all the Seven; in 1976 it completed a 100% takeover of Marcor, parent of Container Corp. of America and Montgomery Ward. Last year these subsidiaries earned $175 million, or 17.5% of Mobil's profits...
...postal workers, who now earn an average of $7.58 per hour, were deeply dissatisfied. There were brief wildcat walkouts in Jersey City and outside
...brief police strikes, a wildcat walkout by municipal mechanics, 23 vetoes of city council legislation, continual scrambles to meet employee payrolls -it's been a tough nine months for Cleveland and Dennis Kucinich, 31, the nation's youngest big-city mayor. Last week it got tougher...
Although cordial relations are restored on the surface, there remain some rough edges to smooth out in the relationship between the University and B&G employees. The fact the wildcat strike erupted at all demonstrated a degree of resentment and anger among the employees the University did not suspect. The strike jolted Harvard into improving the concrete terms of the reassignment policy and its communication with the MTC. But the continued disagreement over the suspension penalty and vestigial dissatisfaction over the contract indicates the University has a long way to go toward pacifying its maintenance workers' grievances...