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<text id=89TT3163>
<title>
Dec. 04, 1989: Business Notes:Strikes
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Dec. 04, 1989 Women Face The '90s
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 69
Business Notes
STRIKES
Back in the Saddle Again
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<p> Job-stress levels in the airline industry eased last week,
when three major labor disputes were resolved. Just as 57,800
striking Boeing machinists were heading back to work, 2,250
Eastern Air Lines pilots and 4,400 flight attendants ended a
bitter nine-month walkout.
</p>
<p> Boeing can now get back to speed on its $85 billion backlog
of commercial-jet orders. Under the new three-year contract,
the machinists will receive 10% wage increases (their prestrike
hourly pay range: $8.88 to $18.42) and lump-sum payments
totaling 19% of gross pay.
</p>
<p> When Eastern's pilots and flight attendants walked out in
support of striking machinists last March, they helped force
the airline into Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Their hopes that the
U.S. bankruptcy court would impose an acceptable settlement were
dashed as the Chapter 11 proceedings dragged on and Eastern
hired new nonunion workers to replace the strikers. Last week
the pilots and flight attendants gave up. The machinists still
pin their hopes on the court.
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