The delicate politics mean that Mr Mehdorn wants to avoid a damaging strike.
Last Tuesday, Justice Kevin M. Dillon of State Supreme Court issued a restraining order against the striking teachers and criticized the union leaders by name for what he said was a damaging strike against the interests of children in New York's second-largest school district.
"A damaging strike may shut down the Grangemouth site, with serious ramifications for fuel production and supply throughout Scotland and the north of England".
The four-year contract agreement, which must now be approved by a majority of the 21,000 members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, would avoid a second damaging strike at the plane maker's Seattle area plants; a 58-day strike by its 27,000-member machinists union ended Nov. 2.
The German metal and engineering industry averted a potentially damaging strike by agreeing to the largest wage increase in years, another indication of the health of the largest European economy.
The second most damaging strike was a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in 2009, which cost 50bn won (£29m) to clear up, and the third was another DDoS attack in March 2011, costing 10bn won (£5.9m).
The carrier, which is seeking to pare its annual labour costs by $1.4 billion as part of a plan to leave bankruptcy protection, averted a damaging pilots' strike by continuing to negotiate past a court-imposed deadline to reach a deal.The board of BOC, a British company founded in 1886, agreed to an £8.2 billion ($14.4 billion) sweetened takeover offer from German-based Linde.
"Even at this late hour, I hope that the British Medical Association will call off its damaging strike," he said.
The German airline had to cancel 3,800 flights in the latest, and potentially most damaging, strike to hit it over the past few years.Bold decisionBlackBerry reported a $5.9 billion net loss for its financial year ending March 1st; revenue for its latest quarter came in at under $1 billion for the first time since 2007.
But as bad weather has bogged down Kenya's troops, the Kenyan Air Force has delivered a number of damaging strikes.
The new extraordinary residence was actually earthquake resistant, as can be seen e.g., in the year 1689, when a damaging earthquake struck Innsbruck and the building remained, but it burned down at last in 1728 (Weigl 2007).
