The National Hockey League (NHL) has cancelled the first two weeks of its regular season because of an ongoing labour dispute with its players' union.
The National Hockey League (NHL) has cancelled an additional week of its season - 53 games - amid an ongoing labour dispute with its players' union.
Only three years ago, a labour dispute between millionaire players and millionaire owners caused the cancellation of the World Series for the first time in history, alienating fans.
One side-effect of the cost-cutting was a labour dispute in the summer of 1997, when short-haul cabin crews went on strike to protest against changes in their working patterns.
Labour and Plaid members also refused to cross a PCS picket line in March 2010 when the union was in dispute with the then Labour UK government.
The bosses made secret attempts to train non-union labour well ahead of the dispute.
But, now that the link with the free movement of labour has been broken, the dispute is much less likely to get out of hand.
And though ministers are pretending tonight this is not their dispute, senior figures in the Labour Party are already warning them not to underestimate the damage it could cause them.
The Chancellor won't want good news overshadowed by a bitter dispute which is causing much alarm on Labour's back-benches.
The dispute is likely to end up before the Labour Court in Johannesburg as early as Wednesday.
The succession question, however, is only part of a broader struggle to apportion blame for the government's impending demise, a dispute that has already broken out within the Labour movement.
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One remarkable feature of this dispute over tax is that the Tories, inventors of the low-tax orthodoxy which Labour is now eagerly espousing, do not feature in the argument.
What the prime minister will certainly not want is a lengthy, escalating dispute to bring his political honeymoon to a swift end and recall bad memories of past clashes between Labour governments and the unions.
Talks were held at the Labour Relations Agency (LRA) on Thursday evening but there was no breakthrough in the 10-day-long dispute.
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