Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...postal workers' agreement, for which the Administration had tirelessly lobbied, is a small but significant departure from those egregious gains. It is also a good deal more moderate than what the postal workers had originally demanded, and could well wind up giving them somewhat lower increases than they enjoyed under their last contract...
...deal will hold automatic wage increases to about the same level as under the old contract, but will tighten up considerably on cost-of-living payments, which are made automatically every six months as inflation goes up. Though consumer prices are rising at an alarming 11.4%, Administration officials are hopeful that the rate of increase wi now begin to ease as food prices start to decline, and that inflation will average 7% for the year as a whole. If so, the postal workers should get no more than 6.5% in total pay increases during the contract's first year...
...postal pay deal was the last major union contract on the negotiation calendar this year and the first one to be settled within reasonable limits. Last March, in a peace-at-any-price frenzy, the Administration pressured coal operators into accepting a contract that will increase miners' total compensation by perhaps as much as 39% over the next three years. Two weeks ago, despite considerable White House jawboning, the railroads agreed to raise the wages of 340,000 of their workers by nearly as much. The Administration recognized that unless that pattern were broken with the postal workers, there...
...been infuriated by the repeated charges of Carter's inflation fighters that labor has done nothing to help slow the rise in prices. With the postal settlement, however, both sides have the chance to change their tunes. Labor leaders can say that the postal workers accepted a moderate deal, while Carter can pat them on the back for that-and implore other unions to follow...
...pickings were slim; the Browns had made a deal, estimated at $565,000, that allowed only reporters from the London Daily Mail to have access to the Brown family. Doctors and hospital personnel were also exasperatingly inaccessible. Frustration ran high, and after a bomb threat was called in to the hospital, there were rumors that it had been made by a reporter or photographer who, as a last resort, planned to intercept Lesley Brown as she was being evacuated from the building. (She was indeed moved, but only to a different part of the hospital.) Snarled a hospital guard...