Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real combat takes place in lawyers' offices as the parties bargain-and punish each other. Now the woman scorned makes the cad pay: alimony may cost the husband one-third of his income, in some cases may continue even after his wife remarries. Children become pawns in the bargaining process: if he holds down alimony, she holds down visiting privileges. The hotter the fight, the higher the fees; some unscrupulous lawyers even inflame the sides to inflate the charges. Meanwhile, no one represents the children. They are commonly awarded like trophies to the "innocent" party, who is not necessarily...
...promising store locations as well. Sears estimates that an area producing $1,000,000 in sales a year can support a store. Catalogues are also an increasing headache to local department stores because they frequently describe varieties of merchandise better than sales clerks are able to. And for the bargain-minded shopper, they offer a tempting possibility. Gathering her catalogues, reaching for the telephone, she can do her comparison shopping without ever getting up out of a chair...
Pioneering Steps. The consensus remains: public employees simply cannot strike. All this raises a new problem in labor law-how to bargain effectively with workers who cannot be allowed to walk off the job even though the very nature of public employment tends to spur strikes. In contrast to private industry, public employees deal with administrators who lack full power of the purse, and a strike may be the only way to impress those who control the money-mayors, governors, legislators. When the public employees happen to be vitally needed nurses, teachers, transit workers and the like, they have...
...President Kennedy took a further step with an executive order that bans federal-employee strikes while giving "exclusive" recognition to unions representing the majority of any federal agency's workers. Such unions already represent 700,000 federal employees (mostly postal workers); they bargain collectively with each individual agency -though not over such matters as wages and pensions, which remain congressional prerogatives. One problem, however, is that no one agency can handle all of its unionists' grievances. A postal worker's promotion is controlled by the Civil Service Commission, his wages by Congress, his working conditions...
Apart from the public, who is a Government worker's real employer? All this fractionalization persuades some labor lawyers that the real need is a central agency empowered to bargain for all federal agencies...