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- <title>
- Mar. 12, 1990: Business Notes:Transportation
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 12, 1990 Soviet Disunion
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 65
- Business Notes
- TRANSPORTATION
- Aggrieved at The Wheel
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- <body>
- <p> "Leave the driving to us" has long been the slogan of
- Greyhound Lines, which carried 22 million passengers across
- America's roads and highways in 1989. But last week a strike by
- 6,300 Greyhound drivers halted most service on the only
- nationwide bus company that is still in operation in the U.S.,
- stranding passengers at terminals from Boston to Bakersfield,
- Calif.
- </p>
- <p> The strike began at 12:01 a.m. last Friday following the
- collapse of talks over a new three-year wage contract. The
- drivers took a 22% pay cut in 1987 when Greyhound officers
- acquired the company in a leveraged buyout and slashed costs to
- restore profits. Drivers now earn an average of $24,700 a year
- and are eager to recoup lost income. Negotiators for the
- Amalgamated Transit Union rejected a Greyhound proposal that
- would boost driver salaries $1,350 a year.
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- </body>
- </article>
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