Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the Scenes. Though both labor and management experts predicted a strike, Government officials feel just the opposite. They think that a walkout will be averted -or be no more than a token stoppage-because the public is watching the bargaining so closely. President Eisenhower is reportedly pleased with the prenegotiation squabbling, because it shows that labor and management know they are on the spot, will think twice before assuming public responsibility for an inflationary steel price rise...
American Airlines moved closer to settling the 2½-week-old walkout of 1,500 pilots. American's gritty President C. R. Smith flew to Washington for a summit conference with the hard-bitten boss of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Air Line Pilots Association, Clarence Sayen. Pressure was on both sides to settle before American starts to lay off most of its 20,500 nonstriking employees this week. Probable terms: three pilots in jets, higher pilot pay and improved benefits...
...standard, the 19-day walkout of the tightly knit, semiskilled Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union was a bitter blow. Most New Yorkers had to make do with radio and TV reports (TIME, Dec. 22, 29), which were often skimpy digests of wire-service stories. The nine papers (daily circ. 5,700,000; 8,100,000 on Sunday) laid off some 15,000 workers, who lost an estimated $4,000,000 in wages. Struck during the Christmas rush, the papers missed some $30 million in advertising. Wrote Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the Times in a whimsical office memo: "Last...
Meantime, the nation's No. 3 airline. Eastern, moved a step toward settling its five-week-old walkout, which costs it $1,300,000 a day. Its striking machinists voted to accept a three-year package that brings top pay to $2.95 an hour. Eastern is still negotiating with its engineers, who balk at company orders that they must take pilot training to fly on jets...
...walkout meant that two of the four major U.S. airlines were at a standstill. Eastern Air Lines, largest operator on north-south air routes, has been strikebound since the flight engineers' union walked out Nov. 24 in a disagreement over jet crew makeup. With airline flights 60% of normal, and the first of the holiday traffic on the move, thousands of travelers last week milled around terminals, reached destinations by circuitous routes and even by railroads and buses. The irony of it all: just when U.S. commercial aviation was entering a brand-new era, it was being assailed...