The Nation - News from Dec. 3, 1985
About 5,300 union machinists went on strike at Pratt & Whitney, which warned it will begin replacing strikers and may fire another 5,800 workers at its largest plant if they join picket lines. Workers struck the world’s largest jet-engine maker in Southington, Middletown and North Haven, Conn., in a bitter dispute over job security. The union failed to gain the two-thirds vote needed for a strike at Pratt’s main plant in East Hartford, Conn.
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