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Under New York State's Condon-Wadlin Act, strikes by public employees are illegal. The act, however, has not prevented several strikes in recent years, Dunlop pointed out, including one by city welfare workers. "The machinery of the past has not worked very well, and it must be replaced by new procedures," he said...
Despite all these precedents, New York City last week was paralyzed by a massive strike of public-transit workers (see THE NATION). As in other recent New York strikes involving teachers and welfare workers, no official dared invoke the Condon-Wadlin Act, the nation's toughest state antistrike statute. The law requires that all striking public employees be fired, forbids those that are rehired from getting pay raises for three years, and puts them on probation for five years. Since all this virtually guarantees that strikers will never go back to work, the law has rarely been invoked since...
Nearly all labor-law experts feel that public employees cannot be handled by simply barring unions or outlawing strikes. To be sure, the presence of unions fosters strikes to some extent. And the federal antistrike law (unlike New York's Condon-Wadlin Act) has proved highly effective. In light of the public sector's enormous labor growth, however, the experts argue that strong laws alone will no longer do. Sound bargaining and judicious injunctions, they say, are the modern way to help political leaders avoid strikes and aid the public weal...
...INFINITY OF MIRRORS by Richard Condon. 333 pages. Random House...
...Richard Condon's apocalyptic pocketa-pocketa has produced a resplendent collection of giants, ogres and drowsy princesses, all flimsily disguised as people. They reappear in this grim foray into Hitler-corrupted Germany, but the author of The Manchurian Candidate has turned from dismayed humor to dismaying homily. Condon's current princess is an enormously wealthy, unbelievably beautiful Frenchwoman; though Jewish, she is married to a monocle-twirling Prussian general who cannot see the evil of Hitler until their adored child dies in a Jewish concentration camp. They retaliate by consigning the guilty SS officer to a grisly fate...