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...Richard Meier--esque white marble factory designed by Diego's wife Barbara and filled with art by Jacob Hashimoto, Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol and Frank Stella. One wing is dominated by a Ron Arad silver staircase called The Wave. Inside, 2,500 workers?50% of whom are second-generation employees???turn out an average of 15,000 shoes a day. Their kids go to nursery school on the premises, and the workers eat freshly cooked meals in the cafeteria...
Last week it was time to count the votes. The three main unions?the A.P.W.U., the National Association of Letter Carriers, and the Mail Handlers division of the Laborers' International Union, which together represent 497,000 of the 554,000 postal employees???rejected the contract by a close but decisive margin of 5 to 4. That same vote authorized two of the union leaders to call a strike within five days?illegal though it would be?unless the Postal Service agreed to new negotiations. Postmaster General William F. Bolger rejected the bid. The Postal Service then went to court...
...contract" with the government and insisted on a return to free collective bargaining. Since then, they have won wage boosts exceeding the government's 10% guideline from some private employers?12% from Ford of Britain, for example. The government has been holding the line on wages for its own employees???who, counting those in nationalized industries, total 7.3 million or 30% of all British workers?but it is under increasing pressure to raise pay levels. Britain's 32,000 firefighters have been on strike since November for a 30% boost, and the 260,000 members of the militant National Union...
...dilemma is a complex one. While postal workers?and many other public employees???are undeniably underpaid, government's first obligation is to protect the economy and maintain essential public services. The right to strike is an important weapon in labor's arsenal. But strikes against government?whether local, state or federal?not only endanger society but also weaken popular confidence in government and ultimately degrade the government itself...
...will be hardest to surmount are those that do nobody any good. Making sense out of the jumble of local governments will require a decades-long struggle against that most powerful of vested interests, inertia. Correcting the inefficiencies of workers in the service trades?repairmen, waiters, barbers and laundry employees???may be more difficult yet; it will take nothing less than a cultural change. Such jobs need not be regarded as menial; the person performing a service is exercising power, doing something for the customer that he cannot do for himself. But the U.S. has long been moving...