Labor needs fightback strategy to defeat union-busting attacks
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a10 STRIME AGASOSA AND INDON PRACTICS FIEL When 9300 Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) bus drivers, mechanics, and service workers walked out on March 2 in a national strike against the Greyhound Corp., they knew it would be a tough fight. In 1983 and 1987, they were forced to make concessions that amounted to 30 percent of their wages and benefits.
In 1990, Greyhound-under the ownership of Fred Curry, who purchased the financially ailing company for $387 million in March at Pittston See page 5.
1987—made an offer to workers that would still leave them below the wages and benefits they received before concessions in 1983.
Greyhound's offer of limited wage increases was pegged on the drivers' performance and production, as opposed to covering all employees equally. Knowing that the union would never accept such an agreement, the company's offer was nothing more than a provocation to force a strike and break the When the workers walked out, Greyhound immediately went on a campaign to hire replacement drivers and bragged about restoring 40 percent of service. All the elements were in place for a bitter strike.
Two days later, Robert Waterhouse, a 30year-veteran Greyhound driver, was crushed to death by a scab bus driver while on picket duty in Redding, Calif. The scab kept on
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