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<text id=91TT0911>
<title>
Apr. 29, 1991: Business Notes:Labor
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Apr. 29, 1991 Nuclear Power
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 65
Business Notes
LABOR
Casey Jones Walks Out
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<p> In the age of the space shuttle, American industry still
livesby the stodgier, workaday technology of the railroad. The
proof: less than 24 hours after 235,000 railworkers went on
strike last week against the nation's major freight rail
companies, Congress, at the urging of President Bush, ordered
the strikers back to work. Bush defended the action, saying that
"the strike would cripple the economy and adversely affect
national security." Some half million workers in the automobile
and other rail-dependent industries faced layoffs within days
of the aborted job action.
</p>
<p> The railroad industry and 11 unions have been bargaining
for years over wages, work rules and health care. Tentative
agreements were reached with only three unions just before the
strike deadline. In January a bipartisan board created by the
White House called for salary hikes accompanied by increases in
the mileage that crews must travel for a day's pay and in worker
contributions to health-plan costs. Most unions opposed the
board's recommendations as promanagement. That may not matter.
A new board is being set up with the power, so far uninvoked,
to impose a settlement.
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