The Federal Reserve came to the aid of insurance giant AIG, engineering an $85 billion rescue, staving off the bankruptcy and hoping to bring a measure of calm to a shellshocked global market.
The union is trying to recapture many benefits they had been forced to give up more than a decade ago when the companies were cash starved and on the brink of bankruptcy.
The third Earl nearly went bankrupt, the fourth only saved the estate by dying and what would you all have done in the '90s without Lady Grantham's money?
Truckers unions in the country have said plans by the government to eliminate diesel fuel subsidies would put their businesses on the edge of bankruptcy.