Westinghouse Electric Corp., which has been plagued by a multitude of problems, last week faced a new one: 45,560 employees, members of the C.I.O. International Union of Electrical Workers, walked out, idling 10,000 other workers and shutting down roughly half of the company's production. Main points in Westinghouse's first major strike in nine years:
¶Westinghouse asked for a five-year labor contract, while the union did not want to be tied down for that long. Said Robert D. Blasier, the company's industrial-relations vice president: "Westinghouse cannot continue to face periodic walkouts and...
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