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- BUSINESS, Page 69Business NotesSTRIKESBack in the Saddle Again
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- 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:
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- 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.
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- 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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