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...labor relations or investment have been under inconclusive discussion for months, leaving businessmen unable to plan future budgets. Until the revolution, strikes were illegal. Now the government has decreed that workers may strike, but only after 30 days of bargaining. Restive workers generally were ignoring the decree and staging wildcat strikes throughout the country...
...American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees had ratified a new contract that raised their salaries by 20? to $3.42 an hour, but rank-and-file opposition developed. Demanding an additional 30? pay boost, two-thirds of the men stayed out; union leaders quickly capitulated and declared the wildcat strike to be official. In its second week, the strike spread to other public-works employees, who were inspired by the garbage collectors' example...
...rightists and leftists. The Vice Prime Minister, the Minister of Economic Coordination, the Internal Affairs Minister and the Defense Minister then followed suit. Two days later the President dismissed the remaining ten Ministers and set out to form a new Cabinet. In the streets undisciplined demonstrators demanded greater freedom, wildcat strikers demanded higher wages, and the parties that made up the government coalition competed for power...
...crackdown on wildcat strikers represents a very modest start toward solving Portugal's horrendous economic problems. Inflation is running at 30% a year and the main sources of foreign earnings are drying up. Remittances sent home by Portuguese workers living abroad, which amounted to almost $1 billion last year, were down at least 70% in the first month after the coup because of uncertainty about the situation back home. Tourism, the second most important source of foreign-currency income, is down at least 30%. The halls of big Lisbon hotels are as empty as morgues, and beaches along...
...THERE-ANY-WAY-YOU-CAN RIBBON goes to UNH catcher Dave Bettencourt for being the only Wildcat to reach base against Don Driscoll in last Monday's NCAA championship game. Bettencourt's 'hit' was a hard shot off Driscoll's leg that LaCivita could not possibly make a play on in time...