Word: shutdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...nationwide railroad strike Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks, the largest of the four unions involved in the shutdown, C. L. Dennis, ordered his men back to work...
...rail shutdown had immediate effects. The Post Office refused to accept any second, third, or fourth class mail traveling more than 300 miles after 4 p.m. yesterday. Six hundred thousand city commuters dependent on train travel were forced to find other means of transportation. The auto industry warned of a shutdown within 48 hours...
...pollution. In many cases, marginal operations might indeed be forced out of business when they have to take on the added burden of pollution safeguards. Armco Steel Corp., for example, closed eight old open-hearth furnaces in Houston rather than equip them with costly antipollution devices. This kind of shutdown can cause economic havoc. Some cases...
...Steel Corp. has threatened to close all its plants in Duluth rather than spend $8,000,000 for pollution controls required by the state. A shutdown, city fathers fear, would throw 2,500 people out of work and severely damage the city's economy...
...call a strike. The most widely anticipated action is for the union to hit General Motors, its toughest opponent. An alternative forecast is for an initial walkout against Ford, which seems more willing to compromise, to establish basic money terms of a contract; that would be followed by a shutdown of G.M. in which work rules would be a central issue. Many Detroiters expect the strike-or strikes-to last until Christmas, or later. The union's $120 million strike fund could carry workers through a ten-week closing of G.M., or a longer one against Ford or Chrysler...