Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These were questions that plagued nervous Western diplomats as Iran-the oil-rich keystone to stability in volatile Central Asia-staggered through another week of turmoil and antigovernment demonstrations that have brought the economy to a virtual standstill. A walkout by 11,000 employees of Iran Air grounded all 162 daily flights of the country's flag airline; more serious was a strike by 37,000 workers at Iran's nationalized oil refineries, which initially reduced production from 6 million bbl. per day to about 1.5 million bbl. That strike not only cost the government about $60 million...
...oilworkers' walkout climaxed two months of labor unrest that has spread to nearly every sector of the economy. Demands ranged from pay hikes to compensate for Iran's oil-fueled inflation (officially pegged at 50%) to political reforms, an end to martial law and the release of all remaining political prisoners. Stung by a strike that involved 1 million civil servants and government workers, authorities by and large have acted swiftly to satisfy many of the grievances. Government workers were granted wage increases ranging from 25% to more than 100% as well as such fringe benefits as subsidized...
Still to be settled, however, were strikes by 400,000 schoolteachers and the Iran Air employees. The airline walkout stranded some 20,000 devout Muslims headed for Mecca on the annual hajj (pilgrimage). A plea by religious leaders failed to get the workers back on the job to enable the pilgrims "to perform their religious duties toward Allah." The Shah himself stepped in and ordered the Imperial Air Force to transport the pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. Parents were growing impatient with the school closings, even if their offspring were not. Many schoolchildren took to the streets to join demonstrators...
...Peoples, co-head shop steward for the Harvard dining halls, said yesterday the kitchen workers do not plan a walkout or work slowdown to protest the contract, but "are going to start compiling demands for the next contract...
Until now, VW's Pennsylvania wage has averaged more than a dollar less than what Detroit's Big Three pay, and VW workers insist on catching up. In sum, the VW workers want at least $10 an hour by 1981. The walkout is the latest sign that labor leaders' clout with their membership is waning - an ominous portent for next year's heavy calendar of union bargaining. The VW strike is also unsettling other foreign firms that are thinking of starting plants in the U.S., notably Japan's automaking Toyota, Nissan (Datsun) and Honda. Says...