CLINTON WANTS PILOTS' STRIKE AVERTED : PRESIDENT'S SUGGESTIONS.Byline: Todd S Todd , Sir Alexander Robertus 1907-1997. British chemist. He won a 1957 Nobel Prize for his study of nucleic acids and nucleotide structures. . Purdum The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the canceled most of its Friday night overseas flights Wednesday in the face of a looming strike deadline, as President Clinton urged the nation's second-largest carrier and its pilots' union to resolve a dispute that he said ``has huge implications for our country'' through mediation. With a strike deadline set for 12:01 a.m. Saturday and widespread disruptions in travel plans already apparent, pressure intensified on the parties. Clinton said he was following the matter ``very closely'' and ordered his administration to study the potential economic disruptions of a strike - a first step toward any presidential intervention. But White House aides insisted that Clinton was loath loath also loth adj. Unwilling or reluctant; disinclined: I am loath to go on such short notice. [Middle English loth, displeasing, loath to intercede in the standoff, preferring to keep pressure on the airline and union to avert a strike that would throw the nation's air travel system into turmoil at the height of the winter tourist season Tourist Season is a novel written in 1986 by Carl Hiaasen. It is set in and around Miami, Florida. Bookjacket tagline The only trace of the first victim was his Shriner's fez washed up on the Miami beach. . ``The time has not expired and I want to encourage the parties to make maximum use of the mediation board process,'' Clinton said Wednesday, in his first public comments on the matter, at an unrelated White House ceremony on air safety. ``That's what ought to be done today and that's all I have to say about it.'' Airline and union negotiators continued to meet throughout the day in Washington, after pilots rejected management's latest pay offer. An American spokesman said that the airline had canceled its overseas flights for Friday night, except for flights to London, to assure that its planes were not stranded abroad if the pilots walk out. A strike would cancel 2,200 flights by American on Saturday, affecting as many as 220,000 passengers. Ken Hipp, chairman of the National Mediation Board The National Mediation Board is a three-person board created in 1934 by an act amending the Railway Labor Act (45 U.S.C.A. §§ 151–158, 160–162, 1181–1188) to resolve disputes in the railroad and airline industries that could disrupt travel or imperil the , which is conducting the talks, said that the process was ``going slowly and with increasing difficulty,'' and that even the discussion of possible presidential involvement ``makes it much more difficult to get an agreement at the table.'' Under the Railway Labor Act The Railway Labor Act is a United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railway and airline industries.. The Act, passed in 1926 and amended in 1936 to apply to the airline industry, seeks to substitute bargaining, arbitration and mediation for strikes as a means , Clinton could intervene to name a three-member presidential emergency panel to recommend a nonbinding resolution of the dispute, if the mediation board found that the strike threatened a region's central transportation system and recommended intervention. Such a panel would have 30 days to devise recommendations and the parties would have another 30 days to consider them, with no work stoppage in the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile . Such boards are relatively common in rail strikes, but the White House said Wednesday that none had been convened in an airline strike since a machinists' strike against five carriers disrupted service for 40 days in 1966. President George Bush twice declined to appoint such a board during a machinists' strike against Eastern Airlines in 1989. In recent years, a far more common practice has been jawboning During the mid- to late 1960s, the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration tried to deal with the mounting inflationary pressures by direct government influence. Wage-price guideposts were set up, and the power of the presidency was used to coerce big businesses and labor into going along with and arm-twisting, such as Clinton's informal intervention after a five-day flight attendants' strike against American on the eve On the Eve (Накануне in Russian) is the third novel by famous Russian writer Ivan Turgenev, best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. of Thanksgiving in 1993, in which he persuaded the parties to submit to binding arbitration. But Clinton's informal efforts to break a logjam log·jam n. 1. An immovable mass of floating logs crowded together. 2. A deadlock, as in negotiations; an impasse. Noun 1. in the 1995 Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. strike failed, and White House aides said that there was little incentive to get involved in the current dispute unless absolutely needed. ``There's no gain in this for us being involved,'' one senior aide said, ``because you have every angry passenger whose flight gets screwed up blaming us. We want them to settle the damn dispute and do it before midnight Friday.'' Use his office as a ``bully pulpit'' to urge a settlement, or to signal the administration's sympathy with one of the disputing parties. Such jawboning did not work in the 1994-95 baseball strike A strike in baseball could refer to:
Create an emergency board and institute a 60-day ``cooling off'' period under the National Railway Labor Act, which governs labor relations for the airline industry. Clinton would need the recommendation of the National Mediation Board to take this rarely used step. Such emergency boards are common in rail disputes, because of their greater threat to the national economy, but are rarely convened to avert airline disruptions. The Transportation Department is preparing an economic analysis of the impact of a strike against American Airlines. Its report, expected today, could be used as a basis of presidential intervention. Clinton would have to determine that the pilot strike posed ``a substantial economic threat'' of depriving a region of a ``central transportation service.'' If a presidential emergency board is appointed, it would prepare a settlement recommendation within 30 days and give parties another 30 days to resolve the dispute. Neither side could take action to upset the status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. during the interim. If that didn't work, Congress could impose a settlement or establish an arbitration mechanism. Clinton has directed his staff to monitor this week's talks under the auspices of the National Mediation Board and keep in contact with both parties. But aides insist he has not decided whether to get involved. CAPTION(S): Box Box: PRESIDENT'S SUGGESTIONS (See text) |
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