There were also a series of damaging strikes that attracted unfavourable attention at home and abroad.
Ford and unions representing its British workers reached a compromise intended to end a damaging 10-day strike.
Despite the disappointment of the party opposite, that support irresponsible and damaging strikes, it looks like something of a damp squib.
But even as some Administration officials were warning today of the possibility of another, perhaps far more damaging strike, other officials were sounding less bellicose.
Their recipe for recovery is more strikes, more frequent strikes and more damaging strikes.
An attempt to emulate such progress in 1987 ended in almost three months of wildcat action followed by a damaging two-week official strike.
Hugo Moyano, who led a damaging 24-hour nationwide strike on Wednesday, said he was not about to stop the protests.
The stony rain wore them away, but slowly, slowly, perhaps one really damaging strike in a hundred thousand years.
The Ford Motor Company and unions representing its 32,500 workers reached a compromise Tuesday night intended to end a damaging 10-day strike.
Rua, however, was also exhausted, and was unable to land meaningful or damaging strikes to Henderson from this position.