21. Last week, GM and International Union of Electrical workers resolved a threatened strike at two parts plants in Kettering, Ohio. 22. Labor negotiations and threatened strikes obviously work well for the Yankees. 23. Limiting the decline was a threatened strike by Colombian truck drivers, who plan to walk off the job Sunday in a dispute over freight rates. 24. Meanwhile, the General Motors Corp. is facing a threatened strike next week over the pace of work at an enormous assembly and parts making complex. 25. Movie studios, fearful of threatened strikes by actors and writers, had rushed films into production early in the year. 26. Oil production is returning to normal in Nigeria and Colombian oil workers yesterday called off a threatened strike. 27. Should American Airlines pilots carry out a threatened strike Saturday, scheduled passengers better not count on other carriers to come to their rescue. 28. Sports strikes, or threatened strikes, are different from strikes staged by other unions for a variety of reasons. 29. Still, he predicted that any reduction in network television ad buying this spring will have more to do with the soft economy than the threatened strike. 30. Studios and networks are already in high gear making films and television shows before the threatened strike could shut down the entire entertainment industry. |
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