Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just put out to competitive bidding the business of repairing city vehicles, and that meant his workers had to bid against private companies to keep their jobs. Fantauzzo's workers were worried that they would be underbid. So they gave up their pay raises--and narrowly won the contract. The competition has brought a new efficiency to the operation: costs are down 29%, turn-around time on repairs has improved markedly, and customer complaints have fallen more than 90%. At the same time, the workers have more than made up for their lost raises, averaging 5% salary hikes in each...
...affluent residents have fled to the suburbs. Since the mid-1970s, when New York and other big cities teetered on the brink of bankruptcy, mayors have had to work hard just to stay afloat: they literally can no longer afford to preside over bloated bureaucracies or coddle unions at contract time. "There's just a different set of problems mayors are facing today," says Barnard College political science professor Ester Fuchs. "If they want to have cities at all, the name of the game is keeping their budgets balanced, keeping the business community and the middle class happy, and coming...
...mayors is that city employees must become more efficient. Rendell, a Democrat and a tough-talking former prosecutor, is widely credited with saving Philadelphia by going eyeball-to-eyeball with the city's powerful public-employee unions shortly after he took office in 1992. Rendell offered workers a contract that froze wages for 33 months and cut back on paid holidays. After a 16-hour strike, the unions capitulated. Under Rendell, a city that was cited five years ago by City and State magazine for setting "the standard for municipal distress in the 1990s" now has a budget surplus...
...solely for its own employees, which the company says could add 50% to its workers' retirement benefits. Not so fast, say the Teamsters, who want the contributions to continue being spread among more of its members and have refused to authorize a vote at UPS on the company's contract proposal. "We're convinced that Carey's primary concern is the pension issue," says James Kelly, UPS chairman and chief executive officer. "Why should our workers bear this burden...
...more like 15 or 20," she says, "but I'm amazed at myself. I'm not as far away from where I want to be as I thought." Swoopes, one of the best female players in the game and one of its top earners--she has her own sneaker contract and children's book--was a little hesitant to tell the fledgling W.N.B.A. that she was pregnant, but says it was very supportive. Nevertheless, she waited only two days after the birth to ask her doctor if she could start training. And she wants another child, "eventually--not any time...