Four thousand staff working at 373 Crown - or main - offices, handling 20% of all Post Office business, will strike on 30 March.
At a time when the company is struggling to figure out how to reinvigorate its PC business, does it really strike anyone out there that there is a big opportunity for HP to jump into the smartphone business.
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Even worse, whichever company is hit with a strike may lose business permanently to the others still working.
He adds that getting out of the strike-carrier business for ten years means that critical skills will be lost.
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Faced with the threat of a tax strike by the business community, the authorities have resorted to little-used detention laws to keep suspects off the streets.
On the one hand, the strike, backed by business as well as labour, showed no sign of weakening.
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Employers and trade unions are set to hold a new round of talks on a potential deal later this week, but remain at odds over how to strike a balance between business demands for more flexibility and union stress on job security.
Although GE currently makes engines for several U.S. fighters, the future of the high-performance military engine business is the F-35 joint strike fighter, which will replace most of the tactical aircraft in the joint fleet over the next 30 years.
But the business model of the cruise industry is: Strike up the band and hand out the daiquiris, the cruise must go on.
And despite a 100-day writers' strike and unsettled Screen Actor's Guild business that continues to steal headlines, he has every reason to be.
It will help remove the worry that if you have the courage to strike out on your own and open a business, you'll be doomed from the start.
Mr Parker said that with the bus industry already facing challenging times, the firm would expect staff to help grow the business rather than "undermining efforts" by calling a strike.
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Jeff's fear of a mole may be well grounded, for the Mounties hope to strike a blow to Canada's cannabis business with a string of big, high-profile busts over the next several years.
Well take your skills and strike out as a consultant or start your own business.
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"Even that would strike me as being pretty far from their existing business model, " says IDC's Del Prete.
If you strike out on your own and start a small business, you'll be able to get coverage.
Baseball had bounced back from the doldrums of the 1994 strike and the sport was finally thriving as a business entity.
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The association representing hotel owners is trying to play down the strike, saying it will not cause serious disruption to business as occupancy rates are currently low.
While the grocers need commercial-bank partners to teach them the business today, it may not be long before they ditch the banks and strike out alone.
In one of its first data analyses in May 2011, Startup Compass discerned that tech start-ups with two or three founders were most able to strike a balance between sticking to a plan and changing the direction of the business.
London Mayor Boris Johnson and business organisation the CBI have suggested there should be a minimum turnout for union ballots in favour of strike action.
"The result shows that a significant proportion of our staff do not wish to take strike action and would like to work with us in delivering our plans to bring the business into profit, " said Kevin Gilliland of the Post Office.
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