His support for a 15-month blanket ban on strikes suggests that he is still not wholly aware of this fact.

The action was in defiance of a new ban on strikes in energy and other critical industries.

He said her business representatives wanted a five-year ban on strikes and a 50-cent hourly wage for the same period.

A1 The Soviet Legislature backed a ban on strikes in important industries.

Mrs Thatcher has been advised that a complete ban on strikes is not a practical proposition and may entail a high degree of political risk.

The Government last week proposed freezes on wages, prices, rents, local taxes and stock dividends, along with a two-year ban on strikes.

In proposing a ban on strikes, the Soviet leadership therefore wished to nip the incipient labour movement in the bud.

The public was angry, with a majority in polls favoring a ban on strikes by public service workers and a year's moratorium on labor actions.

For this, Mr Gorbachev will have cause to be grateful, for a 15-month total ban on strikes is dangerous and unworkable nonsense.

Above all, a ban on strikes is dangerous as it could only be implemented at the cost of Mr Gorbachev's package of political reforms.

AUPE won that strike, effectively challenging rigged arbitration rules and the ban on strikes.

Barbara Piasecka-Johnson wanted a five-year ban on strikes and lower wages in return for pumping up to $100 million into the Lenin shipyard.

In exchange for the postponement the opposition agreed to back until May 1 a wage freeze and a ban on strikes because of the serious economic and political situation.

The union still faces disciplinary hearings before the Public Employment Relations Board, the state agency that enforces New York's ban on strikes by public employees.

It also featured a ban on strikes until the end of 1991, and provisions for the prosecution of anyone organizing work stoppages or otherwise disrupting production in any fashion.

The government has fired thousands of striking nurses, arguing that they violated a constitutional ban on strikes by essential workers, and has deployed army medical workers in public hospitals.

After the United States entered World War I, Tobin initially refused to acceded to Gompers' request for a ban on strikes.

The Soviet legislature today approved an immediate ban on strikes in important industries, and took the first steps toward approval of a more sweeping and permanent law regulating labor disputes.

On Nov. 27 parliament appealed for an end to the civil war, defended a temporary ban on strikes and rallies, and called for the voluntary surrender of weapons.

After an all-night session last week, they approved a temporary ban on strikes in major industries and began drafting the law that was approved with only minor changes at today's session.

During these talks, Ford sought changes in work rules, a ban on strikes during the life of the contract, and the imposition of yet another two-tier wage system for new hires.

Page A1 Moscow called for a ban on strikes for 15 months and proposed other powers to halt disruptions in industry and transport, which officials said has put the economy near collapse.

After appeasing the coal miners with a list of concessions and tolerating nationalist protest strikes in several republics, the Government last week proposed a 15-month ban on strikes of any kind.

The Soviet leader has seen a reluctant Kremlin wage increase proposal rejected by the strikers and he has responded by proposing stronger "anti-crisis" measures including a yearlong ban on strikes.

A Russian trade union leader today rejected President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's new ban on strikes, saying it was intended to cure the symptoms but not the causes of Soviet economic problems.