Word: walkout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DAYTON, OHIO: Talks have resumed between union and GM negotiators to reach an agreement ending the two-week old strike by workers at two Dayton brake plants. Earlier, negotiators took a brief break following 40 hours of non-stop bargaining. The walkout by 2,700 workers at the two plants has idled some 150,000 GM workers and forced the world's largest automaker to shut down 25 of its 29 North American assembly plants. The effect of the strike has spread beyond GM, as the company has halted steel and engine shipments. Caterpillar Inc., which makes engines...
...deliver 77 of its 777 jets to Singapore airlines. To do so, the company is giving the machinists almost everything they asked for, including bonuses indexed to company performance, increased job security, expanded medical coverage and an extension of the new contract to a fourth year. The two-month walkout had already delayed the delivery of some 30 planes, costing Boeing hundreds of millions of dollars. Most of the more than 32,000 machinists covered by the new pact are expected to be back on the job Friday...
...replacement workers, the nurses, who were members of the National Health and Human Service Employee union, picketed in weather that sometimes sank to -29 degrees C. "I would like to think our strike was a step forward for the labor movement," says Sue Murphy, a leader of the walkout...
...fact, it's a dispute over bonuses that caused the recent walkout. Salomon's principal owner, Warren Buffett, dared to break with tradition and challenge the pay system, the way baseball owners have. Being a no-nonsense businessman from the Midwest and also a team player, Buffett introduced the notion that since Salomon was a business as well as a team, the players shouldn't expect bonuses if the team screwed up. This did not go over well in the clubhouse...
Boris Yeltsin knows that miners' strikes in 1989 and 1991 loosened Mikhail Gorbachev's grip on the presidency. So when half a million miners staged a one-day walkout last week to protest nonpayment of wages, Yeltsin scrambled to pledge $500 million for the industry...